Lightening Storm - Now No Internet? by John Magluilo
Call Your ISP Your ISP (Internet Service Provider) may be having problems. Call them and ask if there are any outages. If they say no then report your and have them check to see if it is on their end. Reset Your Equipment After lightening storm can cause your router and/or modem to freeze... To check if the router is working, plug a computer directly into it (try not to use wireless for this step). ... If both the modem and router have lights on the front follow the instructions bellow. ... Background Information: Most lightning storms don't short out the router but actually short...

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. ... Due to different vendors, you need to lookup on your router's manual for the IP address (Usually its 192.168.0.1, 196.168.1.1 or 10.10.0.1 or something similar to those matches) and the default password for the router. ... You shouldn’t make your SSID sound like “hack me”, this will probably be a default SSID,...

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... Change your wireless adapters stickiness - In you wireless adapters advanced properties check to see that your your wireless adapters stickiness is set to medium - Stickiness means how aggressively your wireless router will jump from access point to access point in order to find the best signal.

Wireless ADHOC Networks by Eric Meyer
Why and when would you want to install a wireless adhoc network ? Well you would want to install a wireless Ad HoC network when you do not have the equipment for a wired network; you lack a wireless router and want to share an internet connection, or a temporary meeting place where you need... The first type of set up will be if you do have an internet connection but you lack a wireless access point or a wireless router to share that connection. ... Because we will want everyone to share our wired Ethernet connection you will need to enable ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) on...

Installing Wireless Access Points by Eric Meyer
Installing Multiple Wireless Access Points 1. Install one wireless Access Point to test range 2. Assign each wireless access point a unique IP address 3. Each wireless access point will have the Same SSID 4. All wireless access points will have the same encryption key 5. ... Finding your Wireless Range – Wireless access points will have a range of about 75-100ft inside, and outside (depending on your wireless antenna) miles. ... To find your wireless signal range and signal strength you will need to install one wireless access point in the middle of your work area and...

ADSL Broadband - How Can It Work For You? by Marius Bezuidenhout
Broadband is the buzzword these days, but what exactly is it and what are the benefits? What is Broadband? Broadband is a high-speed Internet connection that is always available. This means you don’t have to dial-up every time you want to send an e-mail or surf the Internet. ... If you’d like to use it at home, but you only have a PC at home there’s no need to worry because you can purchase a wireless router, insert the 3G data card into the router and connect this to your PC. ... Wireless Broadband Wireless Broadband gives you the ability to stay connected to the Internet wherever you are.

The Perils of Wireless Networking by Rick Parrott
In November 2003, Toronto police arrested a man in an upscale residential neighborhood. They noticed his car driving slowly the wrong way down a one-way street. Upon stopping the car, the police discovered the driver naked from the waist down. What was he doing? ... Your wireless router and network interface card (NIC) are the parts that actually talk to each other. ... After answering these questions, you can proceed to securing the wireless network itself. ... With a few precautions, you can secure your wireless connection and surf the World Wide Web from the comfort of your easy chair,...

The Death Of Wardriving by Nathan Kartchner
Wardriving: Driving around looking for open wireless networks . (courtesy of WarDriving.com) The history of wardriving runs parallel to the adoption of WiFi technology. As big corporations installed wireless LANs, hackers would drive from place to place attempting to hack into the networks. ... First, there is increasing awareness among corporations and consumers about the importance of securing wireless connections. ... Some companies have begun to manufacture routers that convert a cellular WAN signal into a standard 802.11 b/g signal, making the internet available to multiple people,...

Wireless Antenna's: 6 Reasons to Use a Directional Antenna by Eric Meyer
Most if not all wireless access points and wireless routers come with the standard omni -directional rubber duck wireless antenna. Omnidirectional antennas used in the wrong situations are such a waste of money and can be a secuirity risk. Directional antennas can be used to focus your signal... What I”m saying is that most people don’t even think of changing their antennas after purchasing their wireless router or access point. ... Security - When your wireless signal bleeds outside your operational area you will attract hackers, crackers, leeches, wardrivers and social engineers.

Home Networking - Where to Begin and Different Approaches by Lewis Gunter
Wired This is the grandfather of networking, the bread and butter combo, the standard. Setting up a wired network is not very difficult, can be done inexpensively, and doesn’t require much prior networking experience. What you’ll need For internet sharing, you will need a Cable/DSL router. ... Wireless Wireless networking is becoming more and more commonplaces in homes that need to link together multiple PCs or share an internet connection, but that don’t want to run cable all over their home.