Choose a proper location to place your router

Choose a convenient location to install your router. The place should have enough space. You can place it on the floor space or a table. Do not cover the router with other stuffs since it may get the router over heat. If your router is a wireless one, make sure that it is placed at the central of your house and try to reduce the walls that the signal need to penetrate. Also, keep it away from microwaves, as when on they will disrupt your wireless signal if you’re using a wireless router’s WiFi network, as whether you’re on cheeky bingo or watching videos on YouTube, you may find that it will slow down or cut out completely when the microwave is heating something up.

Start your router

Plug in the electrical power, and press the start button if it has one.

Connect your router to internet

Plug cable from your ISP (Internet Service Provider) to the WAN jack of the router. If your are connecting via a modem, make sure the modem is connected between the ISP and the WAN jack, and start the modem.

Connect computer to the router

Connect the computer to one of the LAN jacks. Even if you are using wireless router, this step is mandatory since the router�s initial settings can only be changed by a computer physically connect to it.

Configure your computer’s adapter settings

Open Network and Sharing Center and click Change adapter settings

Double click the connection you want to configure

Double click Internet Protocol Version 4 TCP/IPv4)

Set IP address to 192.168.1.2 (Note, your router may have different default settings, if it doesn’t work, also try with 192.168.0.2)
Set Subnet mask to 255.255.255.0
Set Default gateway to 192.168.1.1 (or 192.168.0.1)
Click OK

Test your configuration with Ping command

Open up command line window by launching cmd.exe from the start menu
Run command Ping 192.168.1.1 and you should get something like

Configure router via the administration web site

Connect to http://192.168.1.1 with your web browser. Fill in the user name and password. You should find them printed on a label attached to the router. If, unfortunately the label is missing, you may try the following user name password pairs

admin, admin

admin,<empty>

root,root

root,<empty>

The detailed configuration may vary from one brand to another. But generally you need to cover these configurations

WAN settings

Fill in user name and password your ISP issued to you

LAN settings

Enable DHCP server

Wireless settings

Specify the security mechanisms

Change your computer’s IP settings to Obtain an IP address automatically

Finally, connect more computers

Congratulations! You are ready to surf on the internet!