Wireless Network Trouble Shooting: Hidden Wireless Secrets Revealed by Eric Meyer
Do you always notice your wireless adapter is always dropping and reconnecting to your wireless network. If you don’t know what I mean just watch the balloon in the bottom right hand corner of you windows Xp task bar. Your wireless adapter should stay connected and that’s it if you are... Update your wireless adapters Driver - To obtain the most updater driver for your wireless adapter proceed to the manufactures website and go the support section. ... They should ask you for your model of wireless adapter, leading you to the most up to date driver for your wireless adapter.

Microsoft Vista and Wireless Adapters - Compatibility, Usability by George Christodoulou
You’re all wondering, how are wireless adapters working with the new Microsoft Vista. There is no cut and paste answer for that because it all depends on the kind of wireless network you are using. Are you using Netgear or perhaps Linksys. I will try to clarify as many different adapters as I... Linksys Wireless Adapter If you use Lnksys and you are wondering if Vista will work with it, Linksys has come out with a new driver that is compatible with Vista. ... Wireless Adapter Battery Drain One problem that people are also having with Vista is that the laptop batteries get drained...

Wireless Adpaters: Installing, WPA2 and Advanced Features by Eric Meyer
You will never meet that 108mbps that most wireless routers are saying to have but to come close you will have to purchase a wireless adapter from the same manufacture. Installing your wireless adapter 1. Stick your adapter into your PCIMICA slot on your laptop. ... You should be on the general tab of the wireless adpaters properties and click on the configure button next to the name of the wireless adapter. ... If this is your Home wireless network make sure you have changed your SSID to something obscure and change your wireless channel to something other than channel 6.

Wireless Networking Security: WPA to WPA2 by Eric Meyer
WPA upgrade to WPA2 TO upgrade your wireless network security to WPA2 follow these steps: 1. Upgrade your wireless router’s firmware to the latest firmware. Linksys and Dlink wireless routers manufactured in the last two years will have WPA2 compatiable firmware ababilable. ... After you install your new firmware and driver restart your wireless router and computer. ... Some wireless adapter will not let you use windows xp zero confifuration utility to run WPA2. ... Download your wireless adapter’s most up to date firmware.

Wireless Network Encryption Standards by Eric Meyer
WEP – Is the first and lowest standard for wireless security. You will hear security experts say that WEP can be cracked in 5 minutes; this is true, only once you have sniffed enough network traffic for weak IV’s. Collecting enough wireless traffic will take at least a couple hours under... Remember you will have to monitor your wireless network because you might have more dropped packets with AES if your firmware is not up to date on your access point or wireless adapter. ... If you are more tech savy you should use WPA2, this requires you to down load the WPA2 patch for Windows XP...

Maybe You Already Have Wireless and Don't Know It? by Tony Fitz
More and more laptops and desktop computers are coming pre-equipped with wireless networking devices -- it's so cheap that they might as well put it in, to have another thing to list in the system specifications. It is easy to tell if a desktop computer has wireless enabled. ... Ignore anything that says '10/100' or 'Ethernet' -- they're normal network connections, but not wireless ones. ... If there's anything else there, it could be a wireless device. ... If a wireless connection is present, you should usually be able to see a small aerial sticking out of the back of the computer,...

Is Your Laptop or Home Computer Wireless Enabled? by Kevin Erickson
Built in wireless capabilities are becoming almost standard equipment on most laptop and home computers these days for a couple of reasons. One of the primary reasons is cost. Adding wireless capacity is so inexpensive that it would be silly for the manufacturers not to add it. ... If you can't find the driver CD that came with your computer - don't worry because you should be able to find and then download the appropriate driver online. ... However, it's clearly better to find out your computers wireless capacity now -- before you go out and buy some wireless equipment and then realize...

Wireless Network Trouble Shooting: Battle of the Wireless Neighbor by Eric Meyer
Is your neighborhood have too many wireless networks which interfere with yours???? One of the most common complaints is that every time a neighbor puts up a wireless network your wireless network is slower or you get booted off. The easiest thing you can due is change your channel on your... Fourth boosting your wireless signals transmit power has it’s benefits and it’s consequences, you could fry your wireless router and it could give you hacker issues. ... You might want to think about purchasing another wireless adapter.

Wireless Network Security: How to Use Kismet by Eric Meyer
Kismet is a wireless network detector / sniffer which can give you a vast amount of information about wireless networks. Wireless network security flaws are well documented but often very hard for the common person to understand. I will be showing you how to use kismet with out even having to... (Also I can’t show you how to use kismet if you don’t have the correct wireless adapter, get an ORINICO Gold Classic Card off EBAY.) The Orninco gold classic card will be automaticly detected by auditor linux.

A Quick Guide to Wireless Networking by Gary Hendricks
1. Essential Equipment Right, let's move right along. The first thing to do in setting up a wireless home network is to get the correct equipment. These are the things you need: Wireless home networking kit This is your basic equipment for the network. ... Some also bundle a wireless PC card for connecting laptops to the network, or a wireless USB adapter for connecting desktop PCs. ... Just connect the wireless router to power supply, connect the wireless PC card to your laptop, or USB adapter (or Ethernet cable) to the desktop PC.