Sat connection to existing ethernet.

Asked for little advice awhile ago so thought I'd update how sat dish
install etc. went.

If you remember, I have 8 pc's all networked via a switch. They all run both
Netbuie and TCP/IP. I know Netbuie's not required but it's there for
historical reasons with File and Print sharing bound only to that protocol.
The TCP/IP protocol used fixed IPs mainly to facilitate one of the pcs on
the network acting as a dialup proxy server, using PCAnywhere, some in-house
gaming and the like.

Along comes this high speed internet sat dish. Therefore purchased a 4 port
router. Before dish was installed, I connected router to pcs and existing
switch. Change router to not assign ips electing to keep them static. All
existed as before.

Guy comes with dish. All he knew how to do was connect Sat modem to a
solitary pc running XP!!! Turned out was more luck than anything he even
knew where dialog box was to change from static back to dynamic under XP and
stated no clue at all about 98SE. He was totally confused by fact I have a
second nic in the XP pc and obviously knew nothing about basic networking at
all.

In any case, I come home to cables disconnected, router/switch unpowered,
cables off back of pc etc. etc.

So here's how it went down and all's now working.

Take router and plug into modem on WAN port.
Take a laptop, plug into router, call up setup, change to dynamic ips.
Change laptop accordingly also. Reboot both.
Router comes alive, screen shows it's acguiring lease etc. and in a moment
there's IPs etc. (seen via browser on laptop)
Laptop immediately can connect and surf. It has a dynamic ip in range of
router.
Plug other pcs into router directly or leave in switch and connect switch to
router.
For every other pc (98SE or XP) change to Dynamic IP, insure "Never connect
...." under connections is set and clear out Proxy server info.
As each pc rebooted, it got a dynamic IP address and immediately could use
the sat connection.

Blimy, I hate paying people good money to find out they know even less than
I do when I feel I know so little myself