Need a step-by-step walkthrough

hello everybody.

i recently moved into a new home with my wife and we decided to have both of our pc's grouped in the same room. I have bellsouth fastaccess DSL and I wanted to share my connection with her so that she wouldn't need to use dial-up (not to mention paying the extra $ to do so).

well, I recently purchased a linksys (model #BEFSR41) router and I hope that this will accomplish what i'd like it to do, however, I've never done this before and i needed a step-by-step walk-through from anyone who would be so kind.

let me mention that I plan on hooking my xbox/playstation to this router so that I wouldn't have to switch CAT5 cables everytime i wanted to play, but obviously i won't be using the internet at the same time i'm playing (due to performance issues).

my computer runs on windows xp media center edition
her computer runs on windows 2000

could this be accomplished?

thanks in advance.

It can, most certainly. Did the router come with a quick-start guide ? It should give you quick and easy steps to setting up the most basic functions of it.

Connect all the computers to the router with network cables. using one of the connected machines open internet explorer and go to 192.168.0.1 or whatever IP address is listed in the setup manual. then make sure to set the router as a DHCP router. this will assign IP addresses to your computers. connect the DSL modem to the router and then you should be able to browse the internet on both machines at the same time. of course, i left out specifics as most of the instructions are included with the router but this is the basics. good luck.