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Wireless home networks are getting more and more standard these day. The ease of installation and the practicality of being competent to surf the net anyplace in the house makes wireless home networks very beautiful to internet users. Setting up a wireless home network is rather easy but you need to know numerous basic things when it comes to wireless networks before attempting to start out the set up. You may read up more with regards to the wireless networking protocols to help you get a better understanding of wireless networking. To set up a wireless home network you need to have broadband internet connection with a cable or DSL modem. The mutual set up at home is commonly 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 connect wirelessly to the PC that is connected to the internet. You need a heap of 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 apparent reasons, it is advisable to choose the same vender for all the further and added hardware you buy. Refer to the documentation that comes with your hardware for the installation process. When you already have all the necessary hardware installed, you may get started the set up. First you need to unplug or turn off the DSL modem then connect the wireless router to the modem. You may check the documentation that came with your hardware for assistance. When you’ve set it up your computer will wirelessly connect to your router. The next step is to configure your wireless router. With Internet Explorer you may go to your router’s configuration page. Most of the default settings there are rather safe left alone but there are a good deal of things that you need to configure. You need to choose a distinctive wireless network name or SSID, this will be the name of your network. Be sure that no one around that is near you is using the same name. The next step is, if your router requires it, to provide a distinctive passphrase that it will use to generate a lot of keys. Then the last step to do before you are done with configuring the router is setting your administrative password. Choose a password that is not easy to guess and not too short for security reasons. Be sure to save each setting you’ve configured. The actual steps involved in configuring these settings vary according 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 Available Wireless Networks” in the pop up menu that appears. The Wireless Network Connection 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 corner 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 connection progress as it connects to your network. When you’re already connected you may close the Wireless Network Connection window. You’re done, you’ve set up wireless connection.
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