[access-uk] Re: WLAN
- From: "Tristram Llewellyn" <tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 13:59:02 -0000
First thing you need to do is log into your new router with an ehternet
cable. That way you get yoour router connected to the internet with the
log in details for your supplier. On the Netgears and all similar
routers there will be a "wireless settings" section. Here you will want
to set up the wireless SSID (it is a name that you will need to set all
your wireless adaptors to). You could use the default whatever it
happens to be but there is some security risk in leaving it something
obvious like "netgear". I have left mine on the default but then again
I run a full lengh fully randomised key on WPA with uPnP disabled so
with that I judge it to be pretty low risk. The other thing you should
consider is getting some kind of wireless encryption going, this is
built into your router. There are quite a lot of choices but only some
are realistic, WEP is broken thoroughly so the next step up would be WPA
which is secure enough and almost all laptop wireless adaptors do it
these days. Usually it is a security passphrase or a string of numbers
and digits, the latter aproach up to 24 digits is good enough. This
will stop your neighbours using your wireless and also keep you safe
from the bad guys, so it is well worth doing.
Once you have done that at the router you get started with the wireless
on the laptop machine. You can set up a normal network connection from
"control panel" and "make new connection", the wizard should have an
option for creating a wireless connection where you will be asked the
relevant details. Another aproach is to open the system tray and see if
there is an "Available wireless networks", open that up and see if your
wireless is broadcasting to you, when you first try to activate it you
will be asked for the wireless key you had set up on the router, after
whcih it will log you in.
Regards.
Tristram Llewellyn
tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Technical Support
Sight and Sound Technology
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Andy Collins
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 10:15 AM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: WLAN
Thanks Tristram - So, with a wireless router, I take it I just plug it
in to
my adapter that goes in to my phone socket, but what do I have to do at
the
PC end of things to make the wireless connection?
Thanks -
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tristram Llewellyn" <tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 9:49 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: WLAN
|I have two Netgear routers they are perfectly fine. Belkin do some
good
| cheap ones as well.
|
|
| Regards.
|
| Tristram Llewellyn
| tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Technical Support
| Sight and Sound Technology
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf
| Of Andy Collins
| Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:25 PM
| To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Subject: [access-uk] WLAN
|
| Hi all
|
| At the moment, I have a Benitone router connected to my PC by USB;
there
| is
| nothing on this router that will allow me to connect a wireless point.
|
| Am I right in thinking then that a Netgear wireless router combined
with
| a
| switch is a good way to go? Are Netgear good routers?
|
| Thanks -
|
| Andy
|
|
|
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