I am struggling - how do I set up a wireless router?

My daughter moved home for the summer, so we thought we'd be nice and set her up with Internet using a wireless router. Got the PCI card installed in the computer, brought the router home, no luck. I am potentially doing it absolutely wrong. The router we bought is an ASUS WL-520G. I plugged the router into a power source in her room, and the "phone cord type thing" into her computer and the router. Her room is across the hall from the main computer. Am I doing this completely wrong? Any advice? SOOOOO frustrated......

 

yeah you just have it set up wrong.

take the patch cable (phone cord thing) from your modem and put it into the router in the WAN port. then take a cord from the router and plug them into both computers. or if you have one wireless, turn the wireless on and it should work.

 

Apparently I am an idiot. I have one computer with a wired connection - DSL modem. It only has one spot to plug in a phone type cord, which is a thick blue cable plugged into both the modem and the computer stack. The wireless router, of course, has 4 LAN spot to plug into, plus a WAN port. I've tried several configurations of these cords, and whatever I change seems to affect my computer in that I cannot connect to the internet. What on earth am I doing wrong? It seems to be such a simple thing, and yet it is unattainable.....

 

Hope this helps with the wiring confusion.

 

Thank you so much for all your help. I am so proud of myself - I DID IT!! I configured the PCI card, got the router set up, and she's on line. Yay me!!

 

Connetion like this, http://www.ezlan.net/network/router.jpg

DSL Router, http://www.ezlan.net/PPPOE.html

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