The Basics of Wireless Home Networking
Wireless home networks are turning more and more popular these day. Wireless home networks are very attractive to internet users as the ease of installation and practicality of being able to surf the net anywhere in the house. Some basic things about the wireless networks are to be known before attempting to start the arrange wireless home networks. To help you get the improved understanding of wireless networking you can read up more about the wireless networking protocols.
To set up a wireless home network you need to have broadband internet connection with a cable or DSL modem. Plugging the desk top computer into modem is the most simple set up at home. You have a laptop and you need to connect laptop to PC which is connected to internet wirelessly , you can find the solution in this tutorial. You need some hardware to make this possible. First you need to have a wireless router. For your laptop computer a PC card-based network adapter and for your desk top PC USB wireless network adapter must be added. For obvious reasons, it is suggested to choose the same vendor for all the additional hardware you buy. check to the documentation that comes with your hardware for the installation process.
When you already have all the necessary hardware installed, you can start the set up. First you must unplug or turn off the DSL modem then connect the wireless router to the modem. You can 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 set up your wireless router. Your routers configuration page can be accessed using Internet Explorer.
Most of the default settings there are rather safe left alone but there are some things that you need to configure. You need to choose a unique wireless network name or SSID, this will be the name of your network. You must make sure that the name selected by you is not used by anyone else around you. Provide a unique passphrase to your router such that it will use to generate some keys. Then the last step to do before you are done with configuring the router is configuring your administrative password. Password must be chosen in such a way that it is not too short and not easy to guess. Be sure to save every 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 simple to follow Window's XP's on-screen instructions for this one. Right-click the icon for wireless network in your task bar and click "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 advacement as it connects to your network. When you're already connected you can close the Wireless Network Connection window. You're done, you've set up wireless connection.
