How To Set Up a Belkin F5D7230-4 Wireless Router

Please follow these instructions to program the router, your computer and your laptop. Note, only the items that need to be changed or set are shown below. Leave all other settings as they appear - they are defaults and are ok as-is. Don't assume that anything else must be changed, they don't have to be.

Important - Do NOT use the CD that comes with the router. The instructions below replace the CD's programming, so put the CD back in the box and ignore the stickers on the router.

Section 1: Program the Router

Power up the router and your computers. On your laptop, make sure that the wireless adapter is turned ON.
After they all boot up, connect any one of the router's 1, 2, 3 or 4 LAN ports to the Ethernet port on your desktop computer using the blue Straight Cable that came with the router.
On your main desktop computer, click on Start - Control Panel - Network Connections. If you don't see this on your menu, click on "Switch to Classic View" on the top left side of the Control Panel, then click on Network Connections.
Right click on the LAN connection and select properties. On the General page, click once on the line "Internet Protocol TCP/IP" to highlight it, and then click on the properties button below it.
Click the top button "Obtain an IP address automatically" It may already be set to this, that's ok.
Click OK and then close up all open pages.
Open an Internet Explorer browser page.
Enter the following address on the Address line: 192.168.2.1
The Belkin router will present a login page. Out-of-the-box, there is no password, so leave the password field blank. For the rest of these instructions, just click on the Submit button when it asks for a password.
You are now on the Summary page. On the left side is a menu. Click on Internet WAN - Connection Type
Select Static and click Next
The IP Address = 192.168.0.10
The Subnet Mask = 255.255.255.0
The ISP Gateway Address = 192.168.0.1
Click Apply Changes and OK
If the DNS page does not come up by itself, click on DNS in the menu on the left.
Enter:
DNS Address = 68.94.156.1
Secondary DNS Address = 68.94.157.1
Click Apply Changes and OK
On the main menu, click on Wireless – Channel and SSID
Set the Wireless Channel to 6
Set the SSID to your last name in lower case letters
Set the Wireless Mode to b only
The Broadcast SSID box should be checked
Protected mode is Off
Click Apply Changes and OK
On the main menu, click on Security
Security Mode = 64bit WEP
Enter a security key in Key 1, such as: ab c1 23 4c ba - or you can change the key to whatever you want using 0 - 9 and abcdef only. Write down the key, you'll need it later on.
Click Apply Changes and OK
On the main menu, click on Utilities – System Settings
Leave the "Type in current Password" box empty
Enter your last name in lowercase letters in the "Type in new Password" and "Confirm new Password" boxes
Change the "Time and Time Zone" to (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
Click Apply Changes and OK
Steps 12 - 14 above made your router secure and also made your wireless signal hidden. Anyone driving by cannot get into your router or your computers.
The router is now fully programmed and ready to use. Disconnect the Straight cable from both the computer and the router and set it aside. Connect the second cable you bought between the desktop computer's Ethernet port and the WAN or Internet port on the Router.

Section 2: Program your Desktop computer to share the internet

On your main computer, click on Start - Control Panel - Network Connections.
On the left side, click on the "Set up a home or small office network" line.
Click Next and then Next again.
Click the first button: "This computer connects directly to the Internet. The other computers on my network connect to the Internet through this computer" and then click Next
This page determines how your main computer gets the Internet. Select the Wireless Network Connection (or dialup if that's what you are using) line by clicking on it to highlight it, and click Next
Enter a name for your computer description. Click Next
You can use the MSHOME default workgroup. Click Next
Select Turn off file and printer sharing. Click Next
Click Next again
This will take a few moments while your computer sets up the files.
Select the fourth button down: "Just finish the Wizard, I don't need to run the wizard on other computers." Click Next and then click Finish

Section 3: Program your Laptop computer to talk to the router

On your Laptop computer, click on Start - Control Panel - Network Connections. If you don't see this on your menu, click on "Switch to Classic View" on the top left side of the Control Panel, then click on Network Connections.
Right-click on the Wireless Network Connection and select properties from the list.
On the General page, click on the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) line to highlight it, then click on Properties below that
Click on the Use the following DNS server addresses button, and enter
Preferred DNS server: 68.94.156.1
Alternate DNS server: 68.94.157.1
Click OK
Click on the Wireless Network Tab at the top.

Note: Some laptop computers with internal Wifi cards won't display a Wireless Network Tab, and you will have to refer to the dreaded instructions that came with your computer to find out how to set up a wireless network. If this is the case with your computer, then the rest of the instructions below will serve as a guide during that process. The following steps will create a Profile that your laptop will use to talk to the router
Click on the Add Button
Enter your last name in lower case letters for the SSID
Un-check "The key is provided for me automatically"
In Section 1, step 13 above, you created a network key. Enter it in the Network Key and Confirm Network Key lines.
Click OK
Click Close
Your laptop will now obtain an address from your router which may take up to a minute.
Open Internet Explorer and start surfing the web!

That's it! You should now be able to get pages, send / receive email and do all this from just about anywhere in your house. Have fun!