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Andy
You can't connect both the router & the desktop PC to the set top box (STB) at the same time - a normal ntl broadband connection only supplies one IP address & only allows one device to be connected at any one time.
But... you don't need to try & connect both to the STB, as you have a router.
The main point of a router is to share a connection between 2 or more computers.
Your best option is to simply connect the router to the STB, & connect the desktop PC to one of the router's LAN ports on the back using an ethernet cable, while the laptop connects wirelessly to the router (but if you wanted to hardwire that too you could, as the router has 4 ethernet LAN ports on the back).
Set up of the router should be fairly straight forward. It simply needs to be set to obtain an IP address automatically, & to have its internal DHCP server turned on to assign IPs for the desktop & laptop. These may actually be the default settings, but if not, then it should be easy to change them in the router's web-based interface.
Also, if it hasn't been done already, the router needs to be registered with ntl (see
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d...r.html#pacereg) [unless the router has had the PC's MAC address "cloned" onto it, in which case it won't need registering].
Speed when both are in use... it depends on what you are doing.
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Here's the DI-624's product page at the D-Link website:
http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=6
There are manuals & install guides there - hopefully some useful info