Tech Guide: Setting up a Wi-Fi home network

Step 10: Configure Wi-Fi systems

If you've followed our instructions faithfully, your wireless systems will now be unable to connect to the router. To reestablish the connection, change the SSID within the wireless-configuration utility for each wireless adapter to match the value you entered for the router. You'll also need to enable the same type of encryption you enabled in the router and provide exactly the same passphrase. After you apply the changes to each system, it should connect to the router and the Internet.

SSID
Enter the SSID and the encryption passphrase into each system that you want to connect to your network.

Talkback 2 comments

    What about the big picture? Wi ...Anonymous -- 02/07/04

    What about the big picture?
    Wireless is being touted by the Paul Buddes of Australia as being a niche only product/service. Consumers are being led to believe (by what they read) that fixed wire services will always remain supreme over wireless. Anyone with any foresight into the wireless industry will tell you that although this may be true in many instances it is certainly not true in all. Wireless will indeed provide access to delivery of a variety of services without the need for total incumbent infrastrure in areas where this infrastructure exists. The next 2-3 years will see some very exciting new developments in wireless technology and Australians should be made more aware as to the future underlying benefits so that they may prepare themselves now.

    I have been trying to set up a ...Anonymous -- 17/07/04

    I have been trying to set up a home network, The big problem is we can not get ADSL (broadband) we only have ISDN. As a novice i have been to three computer shops and all have sold me product that as they say will work. Well they dont work with ISDN. So i am left with products that are expensive, my daughter cant get onto the internet and i am as frustrated as hell. Could someone tell us how we can do this.
    We have the following:
    1. NT1 Plus 11 ISDN Modem.
    2. Belkin 802.11b wireless router.
    3 Belkin Notbook wirless unit X2 for two notebooks.

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