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How To Setup a Secure Wireless Network in Your Home

mterebessy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:18:34 -0500

Select a hardware vendor of your choice. This is probably one of the single most important steps as many vendors will "end of life" many of their products fairly early. For home based networking, Linksys does a great job of providing almost all of the features one might need in a wireless router/access point.
Conduct a wireless survey. Before setting up your wireless router/access point, survey the airwaves to find the best setting for your network. A lot of times neighbors' wireless devices (access points, phones, etc.) can slow your network to a crawl if channels overlap. Along with your laptop or desktop equipped with a wireless card, use a tool like Net Stumbler to survey the area.

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How To Tell if Someone Is Stealing Your Wifi

Hyatt — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:31:59 -0500

How To Transfer Files from a Desktop to a Laptop

rik — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:46:46 -0600

More and more people must rely on using a laptop/portable PC in their ever-busy lives to keep up with their workload, and then find they have different copies of the same file on this PC and their desktop. The easiest solution is having all machines networked and storing all working files on the network's file server(s). However, if you need to work at home and other locations using multiple computers, this may not be possible.

How To Protect a Linksys WRT54G Router Using WAP and WEP

julio.rocha — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:01:01 -0600

You are subject to risk if you're using wireless LAN. Securing a wireless connection is very important to protect personal or corporate information. Below I’ll describe how to secure the Linksys wireless broadband router WRT54G. The device is not secured by default. Most people use the router with the default configuration, which allows hackers to access their internet broadband. And that's not even the worst thing. The biggest danger is that hackers can have access to the personal or corporate data stored in your computer. Please follow the below instructions to protect your device:

Connect your computer to the router using a network cable, or you can connect to the router through a wireless connection. Note that your wireless card in your computer must be enabled.
Open your Web browser. Enter: http://192.168.1.1 in the address field. This is an internal IP address to access your router.

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How To Secure a D-Link DI-524 Router

TechieGuy — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:21:08 -0600

Securing a wireless connection is extremely important to protect any personal information you may have stored on your computer. The DI-524 wireless router, by default, is not secured and so it is up to the user to secure the router before connecting to it. To secure a D-Link DI-524, use the following steps:

How To Choose your Internet Connection

mazi — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:49:54 -0500

To access the Internet, a residential user should be connected to ISP which routes their traffic to the Internet. Several technologies are used for this purpose -- Frame Relay, ISDN, LL, ADSL WiMax, etc. I will describe the two most actually used technologies -- the Leased Line and ADSL services.