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Re: [LUG] Laptop to internet

 

Neil Winchurst wrote:


> My wife may move her den upstairs in the near future, which will be
> very close to the router. If she decides to change her setup so that
> she too links her laptop to the router via a cable will there be any
> problems?

No, should work fine if there's a spare port on the router and it does 
the dhcp. Even if not it's pretty trivial to setup ip, dns and gateway 
manually.

Windows networking is pretty mature and simple now.


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