WLAN setup
A wireless network is more difficult to set up than a wired. We describe the procedure again under XP. What is different in Vista, read on page 2.
Attention: The IP addresses for your wireless network components, assign the same way as when installing a wired LAN. The description can be found in step 3.
Step 1: Install the hardware
Most wireless networks in the home are based on a central wireless router, which controls the communication of the connected PCs and peripherals. You judge him in the best one with the network wizard in Windows XP, and Vista. First you must establish the radio connection between the router and the client, so the computer. Your computer is missing an integrated wireless module, install an additional card or better, a wireless USB stick. Make sure that the stick comes from the same manufacturer as the wireless router. This facilitates the installation and can bring benefits in speed of data transmission.
Tip: To make your wireless future, you should definitely buy a router with the wireless 802.11n wireless standard that allows data exchange with a significant higher speed and better range than the current 802.11g standard. Although these are still at a pre-standard (draft-called N), but the current version is 2.0 and is stable can be upgraded via firmware update to the final version.
Step 2: Installing and Setting up WLAN
Click after the installation of the wireless components in Control Panel, Network Connections, update wireless network connection "to" network list ". Now, the name should appear on your wireless network. Then click Connect. It is appropriate to bring before the detailed set up the router's firmware and drivers up to date, because that can bring speed benefits. Next, you should change the default factory settings of your new router. Leave untouched the default configuration, you need a potential attacker to guess a long time to penetrate your network.
Attention: Many manufacturers now encrypt their routers by default. To access the device, then you need the associated key. It is in the delivery, usually on a sticker on the bottom Geh?use.Am best to configure your router via an Internet browser. You specify the IP address of the router that you find in the manual of the device. In the so called installation routine the first thing you should define a password, or replace the default password. After you change the default network ID SSID (Service Set Identifier), which sends the router. This new SSID must enter then on all computers that are to come into contact with the router. Finally, you should make the SSID invisible to others by selecting the option "Do not send SSID. In Windows XP, you tell your computer the new SSID on Network Connections, Wireless Network Connection "in properties, wireless networks, add, network name" with.
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