Alright knowing how good you are with a welder and how much you like bacon....not sure if this is a recomendation or tech question thread. If this is too basic weld some bacon between two pieces of brread and get ovver it.
1- If your cable modem provided by the company only has 1 output and you want to run two computers you need a router.
2- If it is 2 desktops you want connected you will need to run cabling from the 2 pc locations to the router and from the cable modem to the router
3- If one of the computers if a laptop or you have a wii, blackberry, iphone, wireless dvd server etc. you need a router with wireless capabilities.
4- Linksys makes some fairly crappy products, but they are cheap, widely available and so common that they ae almost universally supported.
5- If you go wireless only your desktops may not support wifi and you may have to add hardware. Some newer ones have it built it, for me I would want it hardwired, a lil faster and less headaches
6- If I was looking this is what I would buy:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Linksys+-+Factory-Refurbished+Wireless-G+Broadband+Router+with+4-Port+Ethernet+Switch/9361228.p?skuId=9361228&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=9361228&ref=06&loc=01&id=1218091194053
7- For ultra cheap: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=506421&CatId=373
8- If refurb scares you away, best buy should have this on the shelf
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olstemplatemapper.jsp?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&_dynSessConf=1031007636265794551&id=pcat17071&type=page&ks=960&st=wireless+router&sc=Global&cp=1&sp=+currentprice+skuid&qp=crootcategoryid##-1##-1~~q776972656c65737320726f75746572~~ncabcat0500000##5##2p&list=y&usc=All+Categories&nrp=15&iht=n
Now spend lots of time here while I go sell some of my gun collection in misc
