NETGEAR WG511U Road Map for ‘How to Get There From Here’, Road Map for How to Get There From Here

User’s Manual for the NETGEAR Double 108 Mbps Wireless PC Card 32-bit CardBus WG511U

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

The introduction and adoption of any new technology can be a difficult process. 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 wireless 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’s Needed?	What Do I Do?		How Do I?
Connect to a	1. A wireless network	1.	Identify the	To set up the WG511U, see
wireless				Chapter 3, “Basic Setup” and
	2. A notebook PC within the		wireless network
network				follow the instructions provided.
			name (SSID) and,
	operating range of the
			if used, the
	wireless network. For			To learn about wireless
			wireless security
	guidelines about the range
				networking technology, see
			settings.
	of wireless networks, see
				Appendix , “Wireless Networking
	“Observing Location and	2.	Set up the
				Overview” for a general
	Range Guidelines” on		NETGEAR Double
				introduction.
	page 3-2.		108 Mbps
			Wireless PC Card
			32-bit CardBus
			WG511U with the
			settings from step
			1.

Introduction 2-3

August 2004