[access-uk] Re: WLAN
- From: "Tristram Llewellyn" <tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 16:23:43 -0000
Some answers
Q: Does this ethernet cable run from the router to the phone socket, or
from
the router to my PC?
A: There will be a similar lead for attaching the router to the phone
socket, but I would recommend you have an Ethernet cable as well which I
don't think you will be supplied with the router, I don't remember what
happened with mine. You buy pre-made ones from PC-World with lengths to
suit most scenarios if there isn't one. I would never personally have
wireless as my only link to the network directly or indirectly, wireless
can occasionally have innexpliccable splutters and give up when you
least expect.
Q: When you say "a wireless settings section" does this mean that the
router
will come with a software CD, from which I can change settings, and
create
this SSID?
A: It may come with a CD but you don't need to install anything, your
router just connects over Ethernet so just plug it in. If there is a CD
it will probably be manuals and catalogues.
Q: When you say it is built in to the router, how do I access it to
create the
incription?
A: This is where the CD if any comes in handy, otherwise there willl be
a quick setup sheet. It will tell you how to log into the router.
Basically you will load IE or other preferred browser. Then you type in
a location for the router, sometimes like 192.168.0.1 and press enter.
Routers generally have a default username "admin" and password
"password", the quotes are not part of the login details those. You are
then logged into a web page whcih you can then navigate and perform
tasks on the router. If unfamilier you will have to get your bearings a
bit, one of the first things it may offer you is some kind of broadband
auto-setup wizard so it may be handy to have the details for your
broadband provider handily available so you can pop those in and get
connected. Then perhaps you can start to think about the wireless and
encryption, you wil be able to use your screen reader commands to find
the apropriate page on the router to deal with this.
Once you have all that gong you can get the laptop or whatever to
connect wirelsssly to the router and manage it remotely using that
connection (with care) and will have the backup of physical conection.
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 2:58 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: WLAN
Thanks Tristram, can I take some of your points and ask a bit more
please?
You wrote:
"| 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."
Does this ethernet cable run from the router to the phone socket, or
from
the router to my PC?
You wrote:
"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)."
When you say "a wireless settings section" does this mean that the
router
will come with a software CD, from which I can change settings, and
create
this SSID?
You wrote:
"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.
When you say it is built in to the router, how do I access it to create
the
incription?
Thanks for any further help -
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tristram Llewellyn" <tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 1:59 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: WLAN
| 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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