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Now that sounds like a plan. I shall away to the internet and find out what the hell DHCP is, and how one sets about disabling it. And then how to set an IP address. Failing that I could always read the manual. Cheers guys, most helpful, I owe you both a pint.

Thanks, montyuk. The new machine will be one floor directly above the old one (no more than 5m away) and both walls and floors are made of balsa wood and papier mache (house built in the 80s by shysters). Is the idea with the wifi card that I put it into the old machine and essentially make...

Hi guys, A complete computer imbecile trying to make sense of home networking as we're about to get a second computer. We currently have a Draytek Vigor 2600 wired router and a 2mb broadband connection. This is linked by a LAN cable to the current machine. However, we want the new machine in a...