Wireless networks with standard Wi-Fi bloom everywhere in US. While creating home wireless network through the configuration and installation of a router. To create the network and connect to the internet wifi is best. Go through a Wi-Fi router to create wireless network because this avoids having a machine under constant tension to share a connection. Some routers do not simply direct the incoming and outgoing traffic between the Internet and the unit of a good network, but can also serve as a DSL modem, cable, firewall and VPN server (Virtual Private Network ). Better define its long-term needs before investing. Necessarily an easy task.
It takes between 75 euros for a simple router and 600 euros for a model with Wi-Fi integrated ADSL modem and VPN server. Amount plus the price of Ethernet cards (20 euros, one PC card) or Wi-Fi (100 euros) and the cables (10 euros multiplied by the number of PCs connected), if l 'reliance on a wired connection. Depending on the model, it is possible to share an internet connection between four, eight or more computers. And a router is independent of the operating system, three Windows PCs and Linux, plus a Mac, can benefit from a connection to the Internet.
Installation, connection-sharing and secure network will be essential steps.
Installing the router and network adapters
Turn off all computers to be connected to the router if you install network adapters internal. The procedure is the same as the cards are Wi-Fi or Ethernet. Insert each card in a PCI slot free. The transmitters / receivers external plug on one of the USB ports on machines on. Windows detects the start following the Wi-Fi cards and transmitters / receivers outside when they are connected to a USB port. The operating system is preparing to install its drivers. In all cases, insert the floppy or CD-ROM supplied with the card that the installation wizard requires Windows.
Disconnect the cable connecting the modem to the PC until receiving the connection to the Internet. Insert the end of the cable to the router's internet port on the rear. If your modem router incorporates appropriate, connect it directly to the ADSL filter.
For completeness, the remainder of this guide refers to the configuration of the router Lanbooster Bewan 6104W. Model chosen for its configuration options mature. The installation of other routers in the similar lines to the latter.
Turn the router on, as one of the machines. Launch your browser on this post. Enter the local IP address of the router (like 192.168.xx), normally given in the instruction manual provided. For LanBooster 6104W, this is 192.168.1.1. A dialog box prompts you to enter the administrator name and password, default by the manufacturer. The menu configuration of the router appears. It is similar to a web page.
Change the name of the administrator and the password by clicking on Settings Manager.
Then click on LAN Settings 1 TCP / IP and DHCP server in the configuration menu. Check the Yes box next to Enable. In order to activate the router's DHCP server. This will automatically assign an IP address 192.168.xx type local to each computer on the network.
Then, towards the control panel of Windows for each machine. Create the connection to the LAN. Access the properties of Internet Protocol (TCP / IP) and check that box Obtain an IP address automatically is checked.
The creation of a wireless network does not stop there! Select Settings Wi-Fi network in the configuration menu of the router, then General Settings. Check the "Enable the Wireless. Call your network in the ESSID field. In the drop-down list entitled Canal, select one of the channels 10, 11, 12 or 13, the only permitted in France. Run the setup utility of Wi-Fi on all machines. Enter the same network name and the same channel number in the appropriate fields of each utility.
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