Using your VAIO computer

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5

Click the Add… button.

 

Hardware

 

The Wireless Network Properties dialog box appears.

 

6

Enter a Network name (SSID)*.

 

 

 

 

 

You can choose a 6-digitname.

 

 

7

Select Open from the Network Authentication drop-down box.

 

 

8

Select WEP from the Data Encryption drop-down box.

 

 

9

Deselect the The key is provided for me automatically option button.

 

 

 

Some information becomes visible.

 

 

10

Fill in the Network key*.

 

 

 

The network key should be 5 or 13 ascii characters or 10 or 26 hexadecimal characters long. You can

 

 

choose whatever you want**.

 

 

11

Fill in exactly the same Network key again, for confirmation.

 

 

12

Select the checkbox This is a computer to computer (ad hoc) network; wireless access points are

 

 

not used at the bottom of the screen.

 

 

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Click OK.

 

 

 

Your Network name appears in the Preferred networks.

 

 

14

Click Advanced.

 

 

 

The Advanced dialog box appears.

 

 

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Select the Computer-to-computer (ad hoc) networks only option button.

 

 

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Click Close.

 

 

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Click OK.

 

 

 

Your computer is ready to communicate with another computer.

 

*If you want to communicate between two or more computers, you need to configure all these computers the exact same way. This means that you need to enter the same Network name and the same Network key on all computers as on the first computer you configure.