Home Network Problem

[Joe]

I'm having a problem adding a wireless router to a wired network (1 new pc).

I had a 3com officeconnect switch (10/100) with shared DLS but each PC
"dialed" in individually (1-XP Pro,1- XP home & 1-Win 2000). I had disabled
simple file sharing & give each PC a IP address.

I added a Belkin wireless Router F5D1230-4 and a Windows XP Pro machine (on
which I forgot to disable simple file sharing).

My Problem - I set up the router with the new XP machine and the DSL - No
Problem but I could not figure out how to get the machines on my old switch
to
see the DSL or the IP Addressed machines.

I was able to see some PCs or the DSL but never both on the old PCs. The new
PC sees all no mater how I set it up.
dsl to Router - Router to switch - PC to router -
dsl to Switch - Router to switch - PC to router -

I went back to "get IP address automatically" that helped but but not
entirely and there was a reason - I don't remember - That I gave each an
address in the frist place.

questions -

Should the DSL be on the router WAN Port?
how do wire the Router to the Switch?
what am I missing?

Thanks
Joe

 

[redefined]

The proper way to connect this would be (as you put it):

dsl to Router (WAN) - Router to switch - PC to router -

To connect the router to the switch simply run a cable from one of the
router ethernet ports to one of the switch ethernet ports. You don't
need to set the old computers to "aquire IP address automatically" as
long as the IP address you give them is on the same network as the
router.

For example, if your router IP is 192.168.1.1, then the existing
computers should have their IP set to 192.168.1.XXX in order to
communicate with the router properly. Also, make sure to set their
subnet mask to 255.255.255.0 and the Gateway to the router IP
(192.168.1.1).

So theoretically you can have a setup like this:

* Modem connected to Router(192.168.1.1) WAN port
* Switch E1 port to Router(192.168.1.1) E1 port using a regular cable.
* New computer(automatic IP) to Router(192.168.1.1) E2 port (make sure
DHCP is enabled on the router)
* Old computer #1(192.168.1.105) to Switch E2 port
* Old computer #2(192.168.1.106) to Switch E3 port
* Old computer #4(192.168.1.107 to Switch E4 port

Roman