Thanks Soft top.
I am guilty here of running two threads that are now merging. My apologies to the Mod.
My first mistake in all this was to hope that I could buy a combined router/modem (I've bought the Belkin one) place it centrally in the house and let all three comupters access it wirlessly. Having just taken it out of the box I find that at least one computer has to be connected via the LAN cable, which is no problem, as the router will just have to live in the study next to the main PC, but that now makes it a long way from the other two pooters with several walls in the way.
Can I operate the modem router on it's own without connecting to the PC? and just access the BB from it? or do I have to go the whole hog and set up a network regardless.
Sorry to be a pain, but the web sites make it look easy, and already I have complications!