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If your selection and choice of equipment are in line with the details provided in the earlier chapters, then the installation of these equipments is going to be done in a jiffy! Let us take a detailed look at how you are going to install your equipment at home and get started!

Follow the steps listed below:

1. Selection of the equipment

You need to select the equipment that matches your needs. Use the selection procedure that has been listed in the earlier chapter.

In addition to that, you might have to collect information from all the vendors or as many vendors as you are comfortable with.

This could be about 3 to 4 vendors so that you have a fair number for comparison. You can also check out the web sites that sell these products. It is easy to collect a quote from these web sites and you can also make a quick comparison of all these products as well.

In addition to these, you need to also ensure that all the short listed equipment meets your needs as listed earlier. You should also check out whether these equipments are in line with the standards. You should be buying, obviously, from only those buyers who meet these standards. Read the rest of this entry →

A wireless system requires you to have a wireless card that does the job of receiving and transmitting data. This is either on your computer or laptop.

Most laptops, as I said earlier, come with the card installed on it. All that you have to do: go to your operating system and enable the card. You can start using it immediately.

Well, this might not be the case with all machines or laptops. Please note that there are also laptops that fitted with Bluetooth and not with WiFi. In these laptops and machines, you need to install the wireless card to get it connected to the access point. Read the rest of this entry →

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For every one of the systems that we discussed earlier there are devices that would enable communication. In case of WiFi equipments too, you will find a number of WiFi equipments that meet your needs.

You need to have an access point which will tie to a static server over an Ethernet network as shown in figure 1.3. Access points are wireless nodes that are configured to receive and transmit wireless RF signals on a network.

It also serves to connect the computers across a network. They also bridge the wired Ethernet network with the wireless systems. Read the rest of this entry →

Ok, so who are the people that make these gadgets? All that you would require are these two components primarily, all the rest are optional.  However, we will take a closer look at these two components and a bird’s eye view of the others.

One of the largest wireless router or access point makers is NetGear. There are also others like D-link, Buffalo, Linksys and Kyocera.

There are also others who make the same products; the capacities/sizes are relatively smaller. Most of these manufacturers make both the access points as well as the cards for your computers.

Again the cards come as plug-in options, adaptable with your computer; they can also be fitted into your laptop’s USB port. Most of the laptops these days come with an inbuilt WiFi adapter. Read the rest of this entry →

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If you want to do wireless networking, you need a device that will link the computer to the server over a wireless transmission system.

This is a device we call the access point. You will connect to this access point from your computer. Normally, this is the nearest access point or the strongest access point.

The word ‘strongest’ refers to the signal strength at that point! Make sure you have a wireless card on your computer or laptop. Read the rest of this entry →

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The Linksys WRT54GS Wireless-G Broadband Router makes setting up a home or office network much easier.

It comes together with the documents needed in order to install it well. However, some users complained that the web interface is difficult to navigate, instructions are hard to understand and the security setup should be explained better for novices.

Drop link has also been observed. Some offshore users also complained about the lack of offshore services.

The Fast Start guide will try its best to illustrate the setup process. Judging by the comments of several users, it is better to have basic networking knowledge in order to use this router.

The Linksys WRT54GS has a web-based configuration tool that gives you the access to other networking settings like the DHCP server and client settings. Read the rest of this entry →

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