NETGEAR WPNT834 manual Road Map for ‘How to Get There From Here’

Reference Manual for the RangeMax 240 Wireless Router WPNT834

A Road Map for ‘How to Get There From Here’

The introduction and adoption of any new technology can be a difficult process. Broadband Internet service is considered so useful that more and more people want to set up networks in their home to share a broadband connection. Wireless technology has removed one of the barriers to networking—running wires. It allows more people to try networking while at the same time exposes them to the inherent complexity of networking. General networking concepts, setup, and maintenance can be difficult to understand. In addition, wireless technology adds issues, such as range, interference, signal quality, and security to the picture.

To help overcome potential barriers to successfully using home networks, the table below identifies how to accomplish such things as connecting to a wireless network, assuring appropriate security measures are taken, browsing the Internet through your wireless connection, exchanging files with other computers and using printers in the combined wireless and wired network.

Table 2-1.	A Road Map for How to Get There From Here
If I Want To?	What Do I Do?		What’s Needed?	How Do I?
Set up a	1.	Set up the	• A wireless network	To set up the WPNT834, see
wireless		RangeMax 240	• A computer within the	Chapter 3, “Connecting the
network		Wireless Router	operating range of the	Router to the Internet” and follow
		WPNT834	wireless network. For	the instructions provided.
			guidelines about the range
	2.	Identify the wireless
			of wireless networks, see	To learn about wireless
		network name
			“Observing Performance,	networking technology, see
		(SSID) and, if used,
			Placement, and Range	Chapter 4, “Wireless
		the wireless
			Guidelines” on page 4-1.	Configuration” for a general
		security settings.
				introduction.
	3. Set up the wireless
		computers with the
		settings from step
		1.

Introduction 2-9

v1.0, November 2005