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    How to setup wireless routers

    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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    Re: How to setup wireless routers

    Activating the Internet connection

    It remains to set up the connection to the Internet. From the main menu, click Internet access, and then click Client PPPoE / PPPoA. Check the Enable box next to the heading Customer PPPoA / PPPoE. Call your connection as you see fit in the ad hoc. Enter the name and password of your ISP. Check the box make the connection to prevent automatic disconnections along the interval defined by default. Click OK, and then successively on Diagnostic Launch ADSL and PPPoE or PPPoA connection. The ADSL connection is established in a dozen seconds.

    Securing the network

    The application allows filters to guard against intrusion. A filter is composed by one or more rules describing the type of data packets to monitor.

    Protect your network virus type Slammer worm requires the creation of a filter composed of two rules. These last two are related either to traffic (from Internet) traffic is leaving the local network. In the main menu, click Settings filters and IP Firewall. Create a filter associated with these two rules. For the first, set the Skip field or Block Value Block immediately and UDP in the Protocol. Enter as destination Any settings (IP address of the source) 1434 (From the port field only). Check the box Enable this filter rule. Set this only sets the value used in the Direction drop-down list. The second rule has the same parameters with the exception of the value so in the drop-down list management.

    With a Wi-Fi network, the intruder is easily identifiable because it is not physically connected to the network. The protection of information transmitted on the LAN based on the Wep encryption algorithm. In the section Wep Settings menu Wireless Network Settings, choose a WEP 128 bit in the same name. Set one to four keys (13 characters) to be used in turn to increase security within the network.

    On each machine equipped with a Wi-Fi, select the Configuration Utility ad hoc and insert a key identical to that in use. The wireless network is protected. Remember to regularly change the key.

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