We have two desktops and one lapton which we are trying to connect as a network via a Belkin 54g wireless router. All comps can access the net but we always have problems trying to connect them all together. I am fairly new to all this techie stuff so tried to connect a wireless network. The instructions said to change settings on the access point, which I assumed was the router, and, having started I was promptly disconnected from the net and cannot get back into the router to reset settings. Can anybody help please. I have re-connected to the net via a cable.

Find the factory default setting switch at the bottom of your router. press the switch and hold for a few second. router setting will be that of factory default. there is a good chance in factory default DHCP is enabled, if that is the case. Remove power from the modem, router and computer. first apply power to the modem, wait until it settels. then connect router WAN to modem Ethernet. apply power to router, wait until all lights settle. connect router LAN to your computer LAN. turn comouter on. click IE. you should be able to get to internet. If that is the case, you need to configue the IP address of all other computers on wireless to the same network base address. in IE addrss bar type in 192.168.2.1 (or 192.168.1.1) that should be the address of the router. If not, see manual for the address. On factory default, there shold not be a password (or it probaly is admin). Navigate through router setting. Verify DHCP is set. Verify wireless is on. assign a name to your wireless on SSID. This will let you know this is your network when trying to connect other computers via wireless. Turn WEP (Or better WAP) on. assign key (or password). You will need your SSID and the password for other computers connection to the router. First, lets make sure your main computer can talk to Internt directly. We will take the rest from there.

Many thanks. I will give that a try. I'll get back to you to let you know whether it worked.

I've gone through the sequence you outlined (twice in case I made a mistake first time) but I still cannot access the web via the wireless router as dhcp is not enabled on it. I have had to resort to the cable again. Any ideas?

Were you able to communicate with the router by typing 192.168.2.1 in ED address bar? That is the first thing to do. Also you can try to ping the router
click start-run, then type cmd. Then type 192.168.2.1 you should get the reply, if 192.168.2.1 is not your router address then it is going to give you a timed out message. In that case refer to the router paper work to see what the default address is. As I said, when you depress the "reset switch" at the bottom of the router (with power applied) the default setting will load. Step number one is to make sure your compouter can communicate with the router. When that is established, then the wireless can be worked on. Right now, you should have the network port of your computer connected to the one of router's port. Then the WAN of router to ETHERNET of your modem. and then tryp to ping. If ping does not work, you need to find out what the default address on the router is. unlessl you get a ping back from the router, nothing else in it is going to work.

Yep. Thanks very much for all your help. Sorry it's taken so long but I had to go out and when I returned I tried all the things you said once again and it's now working fine. Even the network problem has resolved itself by turning off one of the firewalls (I had two running). Now however we have another possible problem. I'm not sure if it's connected. If I outline it maybe you, or somebody else, could tell me. When my wife switches on her laptop, she is not given access to the web straight away but has to enable the access. We both use PCGuard which is provided by our cable supplier Telewest Eurobell. When I did a config/all in the command prompt something rather peculiar came up. In addition to the wireless router, which incidentally was all OK, we had :- Tunnel adapter Teredo tunneling pseudo-interface followed by a list of addresses in hex - then - Tunnel adapter automatic tunneling pseudo interface followed by another list of addresses in hex. Are these sinister or are they normal for a laptop? One more thing. It says finally that netbios over tcp/ip is disabled.

I am not familiar with those programs, but for your wife's laptop try this:
In her laptop, click start-click connect to-click wireless network connection-click support. Right down, IP address, Subnet mask, and default gateway.
On the same wireless network dialog box, click general, click properties. Arrow down to internet Protocal (which should be checked). High light Internet Protoca (TCP/IP)-click properties. Verify Obtain IP address automaticaly is checked. On the same dialog box click alternate configuration-select user configured-enter IP address Subnetmak and default gateway that you wrote down earlier-click ok.
Now in your wife's lap top, the the bottom of the desk top on the right corner, click on wireless connectin icon. you should be able to see availabe wireless networks in you range. you have to select or highlight your network and somewhere there should be a box that says something like "automatically connect to this network when in range (or detected). select that option.

Thanks again for your suggestion. We are going to try it right now. If we can deal with it tonight (it is nearly 11 p.m. here) we will post a message to let you know how we get on.

Hi again. We didn't manage to deal with it last night but we've had a go today with no success. I think my wife has a virus on her laptop so we are going to re-format it and try to set everything up again. Will let you know.