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Important
Before you proceed, please
check with your Internet
service provider about its
policy regarding Internet
sharing.
Note
If you have Microsoft
Windows 2000 or Microsoft
Windows XP, you will need to
have sufficient privileges (or
be the network administrator)
in order to share folders with
others. For more information,
look up "administrator" in
Windows Help.
28 Microsoft Broadband Networking Wireless Base Station User's Guide
If you are already in the process of using Windows, and you haven't
yet logged on to your network, you can log off and then log back on.
To log off and log back on to your network
1. Click Start.
2. Click Log Off. (Or, in Microsoft Windows 2000, click Shut Down,
make sure "Log Off" appears in the drop-down box, and then
click OK.)
3. Log on to your network.
After you log on to your network, you can perform certain network
functions, such as opening shared files from Windows Explorer.
Allowing Access to an Internet Connection
Before you installed the Microsoft Broadband Networking Wireless
Base Station, one of your computers was already connected to the
Internet through a broadband connection. Now that you've
installed the base station, the other computers on your network
can share that original Internet connection. You can now use any of
your networked computers to access the Internet the way you
usually do.
Note that the rate that you are able to send and receive data over
the Internet is highly dependent on many factors. Adding another
user to your Internet connection typically reduces the speed of
data transfer, but you are unlikely to notice the difference.
To access the Internet from each computer on a network
1. Make sure that you have a Web browser (such as Microsoft
Internet Explorer) installed on each computer that is connected
to your network.
2. On any of the networked computers, open the Web browser.
3. Search for the Web site you want, or enter the address in the
Address bar.
Allowing Access to Files and Folders
The information in this section provides general guidance for a few
basic file-sharing tasks. For more detailed instructions and
information about sharing files and folders, see Windows Help. To
access Windows Help, click Start, and then click Help (or Help and
Support in Windows XP).
To make it easy to share files and folders, all of your networked
computers should be in the same workgroup. For more
information, look up "workgroup" in Windows Help.
Sharing files and folders is a two-step process. You will need to:
1. Make the files and folders available to the network.
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