Trouble setting up network & file sharing

[bushboy]

Hi everyone i'm hoping i've posted this in the right place

& hoping someone can help me as i'm a bit lost on wot to do next. Basically i have just home & am having trouble with network & sharing. At my old home my ISP was AOL & i had a speedtouch modem which i just plugged 2 ethernet cables into it & the other ends into my desktop & laptop, then went into network & sharing centre & turned on network discovery, file sharing & public folder sharing & made sure the network was private network, then i would just click network in the start menu & i would see the other comp. Right now moving to my new address we have virgin as our new isp, some bloke came around to install it all whilst i was out but it's just a samll virgin modem which my comp plugs into with a ethernet cable, he also left a wireless box with a installation disc which i ran so now the small modem runs into the wireless box with a ethernet cable & the both my desktop & laptop run into the wireless box again with ethernet cables. We have no problem getting on the net on each computer but on my desktop when i click on the network through the start menu a tab drops down saying that network discovery #& file sharing are turned off. Network computers & devices are not visible. Click to change... so i do then i get a option to turn it on but when i click on that & click continue it does not turn it on but the drop down box drops down again. I have tried also going into the network & sharing centre to turn it on but when i do nothing, the option stays on off. Couls someone please advise me on how to get it working please? Thankyou in advance

[Dalo Harkin]

Its exactly the same process as what you had with your old setup.

Just make sure that the ports on the back of the router are in the right ones, there will be one labelled or coloured

http://dailyzazz.com/mages/WNR2000-100NAR-soft.jpg

If you have this which I do with Virgin then the Yellow is what you want the cable from the Modem going into and the orange are the built in switch.

 

If you have it set up like this already then check all the network sharing settings