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Re: Homechoice?
Your router creates an internal network, a network within the internet network.
When you connect your computer to the internet it is assigned an IP address, the telephone number of your computer. nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn NTL ones often start with 81.
When you connect your router, this connects to the internet and adopts that number (like a telephone switchboard).
It then allocates your computer an IP address from its DHCP server this will usually start with 196.168.nnn.nnn this is like a phone extension on a switchboard.
Just like on a switchboard you dial 0 to connect to it, on a router you dial its equivilant of 0 to connect to it, for example for linksys it is 169.168.100.1
So if your computer is connected to your router you type this number into the address box on IE and it connects, in the same way as if a office phone system has no external lines on it you can still dial between desks in the office.
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