NETGEAR WPN511 A Road Map for How to Get There From Here

User Manual for the NETGEAR RangeMax™ Wireless PC Card WPN511
Introduction 2-3
February 2005
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 Do I Do? What’s Needed? How Do I?
Connect to a
wireless
network
1 . I de ntify the
wireless
network name
(SSID) and, if
used, the
wireless
security
settings.
2. Set up the
NETGEAR
RangeMax™
Wireless P C
Card WPN511
wi th th e
settings from
step 1.
1. A wireless network
2. A no te b oo k P C w ith i n th e
operating range of t he wireless
network. For guidelines a bout
the ra n ge o f wire les s n etwork s,
see “O bs ervin g L oca tion a nd
Ra nge G uid elines” on
page 3-2.
To set up the WP N51 1, see
Chapter 3, “Basic S etup” and
follow the ins tructions p rovided.
To learn about wireless
networking technology, see
Appendix B, “Wireless
Networking Basics” for a
ge n er al i n trod u cti on . 