are there any disadvantages of running one pc through 1 router?
i know this sounds crazy! the reason is that at the moment i got 2 pcs on my connection via my router, my brother wants to take one pc leaving me with the other, i cant really bothered to disconnect the pc from the router so can i just leave my one pc running through my router??
my router is a origo brp 1400.

thanks

hi chou i just googled your problem and it seems that you should not have any problems with youe router

Sure you can leave it connected to the router, consider it an extra bit of security. The router will act as a hardware firewall and mask your IP address for you.

Bear's absoloutely right. Your router probabler uses NAT and that is a great deterent to trojans, port scans and such like. Plus you'll probably have a more stable connection through the router than if you drop back to something like a USB modem.

cool thanks guys!! i actualy thought that running it through my router would be worse but i guess you just solved my problem!!!

thanks again!