Wireless home networks are becoming more and more popular these day. The ease of facility and the practicality of being able to surf the net everywhere in the house makes wireless home networks very tantalizing to internet users. Setting up a wireless home network is quite easy but you need to know some basic things about wireless networks before attempting to start the set up. You can read up more about the wireless networking protocols to help you get a good comprehension of wireless networking.
To set up a wireless home network you need to have broadband internet association with a cable or Dsl modem. The tasteless set up at home is ordinarily that of the desk top computer being plugged directly into the modem. In this tutorial we will assume that you have a laptop that you want to associate wirelessly to the Pc that is associated to the internet. You need some hardware to make this possible. First you need to have a wireless router. You also need to add a Usb wireless network adapter to your desk top Pc and a Pc card-based network adapter for your laptop computer. For positive reasons, it is advisable to select the same seller for all the supplementary hardware you buy. Refer to the documentation that comes with your hardware for the facility process.
When you already have all the necessary hardware installed, you can begin the set up. First you need to unplug or turn off the Dsl modem then associate the wireless router to the modem. You can check the documentation that came with your hardware for assistance. When you've set it up your computer will wirelessly associate to your router. The next step is to configure your wireless router. With Internet Explorer you can go to your router's configuration page.
Most of the default settings there are rather safe left alone but there are some things that you need to configure. You need to select a unique wireless network name or Ssid, this will be the name of your network. Be sure that no one nearby that is near you is using the same name. The next step is, if your router requires it, to provide a unique passphrase that it will use to create some keys. Then the last step to do before you are done with configuring the router is setting your executive password. select a password that is not easy to guess and not too short for safety reasons. Be sure to save every setting you've configured. The actual steps complicated in configuring these settings vary agreeing to the kind of router you have.
The next step is to configure your laptop's network adapter. It is easy to follow Window's Xp's on-screen instructions for this one. Right-click the icon for wireless network in your task bar and select "View ready Wireless Networks" in the pop up menu that appears. The Wireless Network association window will show and there you will see the name you chose for your wireless network listed. Click Refresh network list in the upper-left projection if you don't see your network. You will then be prompted to enter a key, this is the key that you wrote down in both the Network key and Confirm network key boxes. Click Connect. You will then see association develop as it connects to your network. When you're already associated you can close the Wireless Network association window. You're done, you've set up wireless connection.
