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... Stopping and restarting windows xp wireless zero configuration utility - Proceed to the run menus and type msconfig, then go to services and go all the way down to the bottom and uncheck the wireless zereo configuration utility and then restart your computer.

WinXPDisableZeroConfigation.exe or WinXPDisableZeroConfigation by John Hutchison
Well that's a long process name! Having just upgraded my network to a 11g network I found that my computers CPU usage was up from around the 3% mark it was now using about 55% some other people have reported much more cpu use than that!. What the heck was going on! ... Some sypware malware hide up as WinXPDisableZeroConfigation.exe, the real size of WinXPDisableZeroConfigation is 32768 bytes To remove uninstall the Belkin utility and let Windows manage the wireless configuration don't uninstall the drivers for your card.

Wireless Networking, Part 2: Setup and Security by Jason Kohrs
The first installment in this two-part series of Tech Tips provided an introduction to the basic capabilities and hardware involved in wireless networking. In the final installment of this two-part series, we will look at some of the basic setup and security considerations that should be addressed. ... Wireless devices, especially routers / access points, generally include a web-based configuration utility that allows the user to customize the hardware to meet their needs. ... In addition to the configuration interface provided with the wireless networking hardware, Microsoft has...

What Is Wardriving And How Can You Prevent It by Zackary Anderson
Imagine a car equipped with nothing more than a laptop computer, a portable GPS receiver, and a wireless network card slowly strolls through your neighborhood. Unknown to any onlookers, this is no ordinary vehicle; rather, it is a wardriving machine. ... For many of these, you will have to access your router configuration utility (check your manual on how to do this, you will generally need to type an IP address into your browser such as 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1). ... If you configure your router to not broadcast your SSID, it will be difficult to detect (but not impossible, for some...

Security: How to secure your Wi-Fi network? by Kenneth Wu
How to secure your Wi-Fi network? Most wireless router you bought might have an installation CD by vendor, and the CD will walked you through setting up security on your router in a step by step guide or wizard. Probably you will never have to or by the way need to use it. ... Remember you'll need this SSID when you browse through available wireless networks from your client machines. ... STEP 6> Save your configuration by hitting “Apply Changes” or “Save Changes” or “Save Settings”. ... If you would like to continue advanced up your wireless security, please go ahead and I think they’re...

Finding Your MAC Address On Wired And Wireless Network Cards by Darren Miller
The Answer To The Media Access Control Question Over the past few weeks I have received quite a few e-mails about Ethernet cards, both wired and wireless, and more specifically, about Media Access Control (MAC) addresses. I think the main reason I’ve received so many questions about Ethernet... This type of filtering in wireless networks can be configured to allow or deny specific computers to use or attach to the wireless network, based on the MAC address. ... Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection 2: If you have multiple Ethernet (network) cards in your systems, as I do in this...

Linspire: Computing The Way It Should Be by Saquib Hussain
As the name indicates, you might have already guessed it right. Linspire is an operating system powered by Linux. There is a growing interest in using Linux on the desktop computer, and these days it's easier than ever to try. Like Microsoft Windows and Mac OS, Linux too is an operating platform... There are literally dozens of screensavers, and the configuration for onscreen fonts and even gives you the capability that in which the window shadows would fall. ... With what seems like a million-and-one add-on widgets, settings and configuration screens, just getting the Desktop looking the...