how seccure wireless network..any web sites ?

Question

please can you anyone help to do this.... i have pc and a laptop pc i got conncet to the BT HUB and laptop i need use woreless........i think know how to do it tell me when i am ceonneting to the network through the wireless i want to use a password ..any idea ..any websites i can get info..thank s

Answer 1

Please refer to the below websites..


http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/security/wireless.mspx

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/815485

Answer 2

first you need a wireless router rather than a hub. when you get the wireless router there are a couple of security measures u can take, like wep, wap and mac.
the most simple is wep, u just put a password and whoever wants to use the network just types in the password.

mac is the most powerfull. with it you can select which devices you let access the network. each pc, pda, mobile has a unique mac address, so ur 99% secure

Answer 3

If you are using someone else's signal, then it is not secure and you can not set a password. (If you can connect to it, then so can everyone else - and they can all see your computer and everything on it). Stop using that signal.

If you have your own router producing your own signal, then you need to check the documentation that came with the router (or the web site of the maker of the router). There will be instructions for setting a WEP or WPA password. It is different for every make and model of router. Follow the instructions, it will show you were to o in the router set up to create a password. You will have to set it up once on the router and once on your PC.