Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Implementing A Wireless Network

If you're new to the PC world and need to get more out of your personal computer experience by learning to build a wireless network in your home, then here are one or two steps you want so as to start. A wireless network is a network that uses radio waves to speak through your home wireless router. When we discuss radio waves we are talking about signals that broadcast from and to your router so you can view the Net from anywhere in your house without a wire. In a home network signal travel thru your cable line, tiny satellite dish or phone line from your net service supplier thru your modem, which is afterwards attached to your personal computer to offer you web access.

Before wireless we attached to the Net thru a giant area network wire (LAN) from the back of our modem to our PC. We also connected and some still use this strategy today, to the web thru dial-up, which naturally is the least pricey strategy of connecting to the Net. Dial-up is the strategy by which you plug your telephone line right into your PC and connect to the web thru an ISP like AOL. Whichever methodology you use, the downfall with employing a wired network is that you PC or portable will need to remain in the same location the wire is found for you to attach to the Net unless you get smart and get a ten foot wire or telephone line, which in this situation will set off a large mess in your house. With a wireless network, it's not untidy at all as you connect to net thru radio waves that are broadcast through your house from your router. To build a wireless network all you really need is web service in your house, a wireless router, a modem from your ISP, wireless LAN cards for each further PC or laptop PC in your house.

If you've a portable, then the wireless LAN cards look like cards and for wireless LAN cards for your PC, they're card like with an antenna sticking out of them. Now you have your kit, the very first thing you do is connect your personal computer to the router and the modem to the router, Before, your modem was connected to the PC, but to do wireless, everything must connect right to the router. The modem will be hooked up to the Net port on the router and the PC will be attached to one of the ports on the router other than the Net port normally port one.

If you want help in setting up the router as you're going to need to make some small adjustments with your router like closing off your port so you aren't providing net access to everybody in the area as I've seen this happen far too frequently. Your router has a manual that shows you the right way to set-up the router for your wireless network so follow the steps given in the instruction book. After your base computer is set and you can surf the web thru your wireless router from the base PC, then you are now prepared to add extra PCs or portables to your wireless network. To verify that you have close the port so that only the people in your house will have access, each laptop computer added to the wireless network will be pushed to enter the secure password before they're granted access.

After the password is entered, they're prepared to start browsing the web. That's all there's to it and you are going to adore it as now you can wander from room to room with your portable browsing the internet when you go in your house and if you're in areas where you can't get a signal then you might want to invest in a long range wireless router.


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