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

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v1.0, November 2005

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