I have a ZyXEL NBG334W wireless cable router, and have just worked out how to set it up to connect to the internet via the modem.
E.g. the LAN is connected from the laptop to the router, which is then connected to the modem.
This took a fair bit of time and involved complicated things like changing IP addresses.
Plus, when I remove the LAN from the laptop, the internet stops working, I'm not too sure if this is supposed to happen as I thought the wireless ZyXEL thing would mean the internet could operate on the laptop without being plugged into it. I could be wrong, as I said I'm not sure.
The problem is: I have another laptop and I would like to set up the internet on it, but without having to connect to anything as this laptop would be situated two floors above the one plugged into the modem.
Has anyone got any idea of how to do this? I have tried many different things without really knowing what I'm doing. If anyone could give me a step-by-step guide with simple-ish language as I'm pretty thick when it comes to computers, then that would be great.
Thanks for your help
