Help with wireless connection need please?

Question

I know a lot about pc's etc so you can be technical in your answer, i just havent used wireless before. Am i right in thinking if i have a wireles router downstairs its as simple as plugging the reciever into my pc upstairs and i could also run a wireless laptop off the connection elsewhere in the house at the same time? How do you protect a wireless signal cos i've heard of people tapping into them?

Answer 1

Answer to your first question is yes - just fire them up and go. You can run up to 254 wireless devices at once of one router.

Second question is more complex, but easy enough.

During the router setup, there are few steps you can take to secure your network:

1) Enable a WEP key. This is a unique key that allows for encryption on the transmissions on your network.

2) Disable broadcast of your SSID. The SSID is the network name, and by default, your router will want to broadcast that signal so 'anyone' can see the network in a list of available networks. If you disable, only people that know the network name (and WEP key if you use it) can access the network.

3) You can enable MAC filtering as well. Then only those specific machines who have their MAC address (physical address of the network card) registered with the router can access the wireless portion. Even if they know the SSID and WEP key, they still can;t access the network unless the MAC is registered.

There are a couple more steps you can take, but unless you are harboring state secrets or classified information, that should be enough to keep 99.9999% of hacking attempts away.

Answer 2

Hello. I will try to answer your question to the best of my ability. My husband and I just bought a lap top and hooked up the wireless internet (this past weekend). It took a while for us to figure it out. They make it so complicated. You would think it would be as easy as plugging in the router and logging on and being fine. We bought a linkys (i know the spelling is a little off on that word, but I am at work and can't check the correct name of the brand) anyways we bought that brand name router. We have our desk top in one room with the lap top in another room. We inserted a disk that came with the router into the desk top computer, and loaded that. It didn't work at first. So we went to the linkys website and did the downloading thing from there. We did some trouble shooting that was on the website. Finally, we got the pass code thing to work. We could get the internet to work on the both computers, but it wasn't protected which means anyone could access my computer. Anyways, the downloading thing gave us a pass code that was like 26 characters long. I just typed that in my lap top and I was golden. My husband played with it for a while. But you are able to put a sercuity protection on it where you will need a password to access the connection (wireless). Once you put the password in your lap top once, you will not need to put it in again. I hope this helps.

Answer 3

You have to go into your routers setup and choose WPA encryption. It will then generate a key based on your choice of 64 bit or 128 bit or possibly 256 bit. Then, when your computers try to connect to the wireless network, i.e. the laptop or desktop upstairs. It will prompt you to enter the key when it tries to connect with the network.

As a supplement to Faith H: ADSL is a type of broadband. Those things you plug into the phone sockets prevent noise from the telephone bandwidth from interfering with your ADSL signal. Don't ever answer a computer question again.

And what the hell is Tucksie talking about????

Answer 4

The router will have some type of security protocols such as WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) or WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) that will encrypt all communications between your PC and the router. In addition, you can turn off SSID broadcast, which will make your wireless network invisible to anyone casually browsing for available networks.

Answer 5

wyntre_20. gave a very good answer, the only thing I can see missing in all the answers is, make sure you get the right kind of Wireless Router. If your Internet is through the phone, you would use an ADSL Router, but if you are a cable subscriber make sure you get a Cable Router.

Answer 6

Yep it is simple,
But you need to turn on security (WPA) on the router and then set the pc to use the same security protocol and what ever password you have assigned to the wireless connection

Answer 7

The instant is disabled on the Getaway .. attempt connecting the ethernet cable on your laptop and open a browser and on the handle bar variety . " 192.168.a million.a million" or "192.168.a million.2" thats the regularly occurring ips for routers much extra ideal if those ips dont artwork flow to comand instant and variety ipconfig it is going to coach you your ip thake that ip and alter the final set of numbers occasion "192.168.a million.XXX " and alter it to a million or 2. which will demonstrate the gadget gui from there seem on the instant tab it would ask you for a username and pass . seem on the instruction manual for the default consumer and pass . If no longer reported do a seem up on google for the defaults many times are consumer: consumer pass: pass even nonetheless all of it remember on the style and its firmware . only provide it a attempt and let us know. As i became examining on the gateway internet site this might additionally be acomplished using the cd it got here with . attempt it as some modems makes use of cd via fact the gui and the only configure the gateway .

Answer 8

use windows wireless and to enable a WEP key, the ssid will automatically be generated. I need to know what wireless router u have though ????

Answer 9

you need an ADSL to protect you...one connected into every live telephone socket