Need a step-by-step walkthrough

[Hock]

hello everybody.

i recently moved into a new home with my wife and we decided to have both of our pc's grouped in the same room. I have bellsouth fastaccess DSL and I wanted to share my connection with her so that she wouldn't need to use dial-up (not to mention paying the extra $ to do so).

well, I recently purchased a linksys (model #BEFSR41) router and I hope that this will accomplish what i'd like it to do, however, I've never done this before and i needed a step-by-step walk-through from anyone who would be so kind.

let me mention that I plan on hooking my xbox/playstation to this router so that I wouldn't have to switch CAT5 cables everytime i wanted to play, but obviously i won't be using the internet at the same time i'm playing (due to performance issues).

my computer runs on windows xp media center edition
her computer runs on windows 2000

could this be accomplished?

thanks in advance.

[oracleguy]

It should be pretty easy. There is one port on the back of the router that will say either "WAN" or "Internet", you'll plug your DSL modem into that. Then there are 4 ports you can use (they'll probably be labeled: 1, 2, and so forth) to plug computers or whatever into it. So you can connect both your computers to the router and your Xbox.

You'll probably need some CAT5 cables if you don't have any, to connect your computers to the router. They are fairly cheap and you can get them at like Best Buy, Fry's, etc. or online. (You don't want a crossover CAT5 cable though)

Once you have everything configured, refer to the documentation on the router for anything that you might have to configure. But AFAIK the default configuration should allow you to get online once you plug everything in.