Vista set up LAN

Question

Going from wireless to LAN, but cant find how to set it up on vista. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

If you are going from a wireless router, simply plug each machine in via the cable to the router (or to a switch, and plug that in to the router), and it should pick up all your settings automatically via DHCP if the router is configured to provide DHCP leases.

If you were on a P2P/Ad-hoc wireless, the cable should automatically assign you an address and you should be in the same state as you were before.

If you have static IP address settings, look at the wireless settings and copy them down. Do the same for wired (do not use both at the same time, unless you change the IPs accordingly - if you know how to set statically and use it, you should know how to do this).

Your question is very vague, if you can give some more information, I will try to help you better.

Answer 2

Question is too vague. What type of LAN? (Wired, I assume, but Ethernet? 100BaseT? Gigabit?) What hardware?

What kind of setup do you want? Windows domain? Workgroup?

If you don't know that, what do you use the LAN for? Gaming? Internet? File sharing? Skype? 3D CAD?