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Old 01-16-2005, 09:45 PM   #9
Bungleau
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Join Date: October 29, 2001
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You need two things to make the wireless bit work. You need a wireless access point (WAP), which will be in the office and connected to a router or something else in there. You will also have a wireless network interface card (NIC) that will be in the computer itself, whether that's in your room or someplace else.

Once you've got those two, you need to configure the WAP. From the wired computer, you should be able to connect to it via your favorite browser; its default IP address will be something like 192.168.0.0, depending on the brand. You'll want to set it to a fixed address so that it's always at the same place in your network.

You'll then want to install the wireless NIC in your computer and configure it to connect to the WAP. There should be instructions included, and frankly, when you first set it up, there's no security at all. Depending on your OS, it may even find it for you automatically.

Once you're there, try to connect to the WAP via your browser. That will prove that the connection works.

Then try to connect to the internet. That will tell you if you've got the WAP configured properly.

There's a lot more detail behind those steps, but that's the basic flow. Of course, the final stage is to add in the security levels, but first things first... [img]smile.gif[/img]

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