NETGEAR MR814 v3 manual Road Map for How to Get There From Here, Network

Reference Manual for the MR814 v3 Cable/DSL Wireless Router

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.	Choose a wireless	• Wireless network	To set up the MR814 v3, see
wireless		network name	equipment such as the	Chapter 3, “Connecting the
network		(SSID) and, decide if	MR814 v3 Cable/DSL	Router to the Internet and follow
		you need to use	Wireless Router.	the instructions provided.
		wireless security,	• A computer within the
		and if so, what	operating range of the	To learn about wireless
		settings to use.	wireless network. For
				networking technology, see
	2.	Set up the MR814	guidelines about the range
				Appendix D, “Wireless
		v3 Cable/DSL	of wireless networks, see	Networking Basics for a general
			“Observe Performance,
		Wireless Router with		introduction.
			Placement, and Range
		settings based on
			Guidelines”.
		step 1.
	3. Set up the wireless
		computers with the
		settings from step 2.
Protect my	1.	Assure that the	• A wireless network WEP	To learn about wireless
wireless		wireless network	security enabled.	networking security, see
connection		has security	• Wireless networking	“Authentication and WEP“ on
from snooping,		features enabled.	equipment that supports	page -4.
hacking, or
	2.	Configure my	WEP, such as the MR814
information
			v3 and all NETGEAR
		MR814 v3 with the		To use WEP security features,
theft.
			wireless networking
		security settings of		see “Implement Appropriate
			products.
		the wireless		Wireless Security” and configure
		network.		your MR814 v3 accordingly.
	3.	Use Windows
		security features.
Note: Secure Internet sites such as banks and online merchants use encryption security built into browsers
like Internet Explorer and Netscape. Any wireless networking security features you might implement are in
addition to those already in place on secure Internet sites.
2-8				Introduction

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