Need to connect to router via cables and not wireless

Belloni

Belloni

Belloni

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Hi guys, just been asked by my dad to sort his computer out.

It's connected to the router wireless at the moment, but today he's been drilling through the house walls etc to stretch a cable to the router, i guess because the connection signal is poor. The computer is in our basement and the router is 2 floors up in my room.

How do I go about making the router connect via the cable?!
 
When i go to manage network connections, the Local Area has an 'X' on it.

When you say disable the wireless, do you mean on the computer i'm trying to connect it to, or my entire internet?

OS is Vista.
 
Oh ok, yeah it's connected to our router wireless.

On my router where the cable is connected, only our main ethernet port is lit up, the other one isn't, so maybe a cable fault? When i diagnose the Local Area, it says to connect cable so?
 
Right tried another cable, the light on both router and the computer come on now, which is a good sign so must have been the cable.

Now how do i go about connecting to the Local Area? On the Local Area when right clicked, i've got enable is that the same as connect to then? I've disabled the wireless now, and am still connected to the internet so i guess it's going via the cables now? Silly question probably!
 
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