First leap into networking!!

[BoeingBoy]

I took the plunge and thought I'd fire everything up to check the hardware and have fallen foul of the fact that because the WiFi card in the main PC is not Belkins, and has no supporting software of it's own, I am forced to use Windows to conifgure the Wifi network on the main PC

Having been told in the Belkin literature to disable this feature, I had to reinstall the software for the second PC and Lappy to enable it again. Having done that I find that I can't see the web style set up page so have had to disable the windows facility in the laptop. It's not very kind of belkin to make this a one way switch, once you disable the windows option there is no way to turn it back on again that I can find.

Anyway I have managed to get all three computers to see a WiFi signal, and placing it midway in the house gives 11mbs on the wife's, 18-24mbs on mine and the laptop is good in most places. I reckon as the wifes aerial is next to a radiator and buried in a corner behind a wooden beaureu then an extension or booster should improve things a lot there.

Also once I have all three seeing a signal, what do I do to get them to see each other?, the belkin books only talk about getting the internet to work, they don't discuss the basics of networking. I presume that as there is no PC near the router location the best I can hope for is to have the laptop to configure the BB settings and then hope that all three WiFi cards will allow net access from it. I suppose I will have to forego any file sharing.