Starting Page Before I go into detail about setting up the router, let me regale you with some prose on my two computers.... My main 'work' machine is a PII-400 with a Matrox G400 video card, iiyama 19" monitor and 220MB of RAM. It's going to be replaced in a few weeks with an Athlon RAID system, so watch out for that! No. 2 computer (affectionately named Buttmunch, the webserver) is an overclocked AMD K6-2 350 with a Matrox G200 and 128MB of RAM. All disks are SCSI. On with the show! Linksys tries really hard to make setup of the router easy for Joe User. There's an included quick-start guide (It takes about 10 minutes to read), followed by a much more terse, and with far less pictures I might add, explanation in the manual. 

Weh-heh-hell, I been doin computers since I could put a spoon to my mouth, I could use CPM before people even knew about DOS. BASIC? I was doing PERL, man! I remember the Arpanet (hacking into Mil sites, heh), and used to think 1200 baud was plenty fast, and this thing humbled me for about a week. I couldn't access the router's setup page, you see. Most routers in the world use Telnet to set configs but all of the Linksys's configuration options are done using a web browser. My problem was that it would start loading the setup page and then freeze in the browser. At first all I could get the Linksys to work at was only 10Mbps, and no faster! So, I feel urged to pass on some wisdom: check your cables for nicely printed "CAT-5" on them before you hook them between router and computer. I spent nearly a week humiliating myself on newsgroups and even wrote an email to Linksys. Linksys could have saved me that feeling of sudden stupidity by including at least one CAT-5 cable in the box.