Wireless Networking Home Setup Part 5
With your wireless networking home setup if you've gone the Ad
Hoc route the configuration here it is a little different.
Firstly we need to enable ICS Internet
connection sharing Go to the Start menu, control panel,
network connections select your Internet network connection
that you wish to share this will be the connection running from
the router or modem labeled something like local area
connection, or if you have a connection icon such as AT&T or BT
select this one, right click on this, select properties, select
the "advanced" tab more.
Make sure Allow other network users to
connect through this computers Internet connection is ticked,
also make sure Establish a dial-up connection whenever a
computer on my network attempts to access the Internet is
also ticked, Select a network connection this will be the
wireless connection.
The choice is yours whether you wish to
select the other tab to allow all other users to enable to
disable the Internet connection.
Ok your Internet should now be shared
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From the pc connected to the Internet, go to control
panels and select " Network Connections " right click on the
wireless connection select "properties" click the " wireless
networks " tab, click "advanced" and now select "computer to
computer Ad Hoc" , close the window, so your back at the "
wireless network connection properties screen " click add Give
your network a name Select Network Authentication type "Open"
Choose data encryption "if you're not sure read the sections
above on security" Choose a network key and confirm it, " make a
note of it, you'll have to enter this on any computers requiring
wireless access.
Choose a key index " does not make a
difference, but it has to be the same on all computers" And you
finished, the settings you have just implemented have to be
added, exactly the same to any other machines you need
connected. You should now have a working WIFI network , if you
wish to test the security from the internet checkout our
Computer Security Test , you’ll be able to see if your
computers have any security problems from the web.
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We hope you’ve found the above document
useful, I wrote it after I had problems implementing a Wireless
Networking home setup, so hopefully you’ll have an easier time
than I did.
Troubleshooting
If you find that you cannot get any Wireless
Networking Communication, try disabling security and see if you
can connect,
if so it just means somewhere along the line,
the WEP address has been written down or entered wrongly "
remember to enable security "
When using Ad Hoc If you have a network
connection, but cannot access the Internet from the slave pc you
may have shared the wrong connection
Again when using Ad Hoc, Please be aware some
Firewall software makes it a real pain using ICS, if you can't
connect and have tried the above, try disabling the firewall to
check this.
If it works ok once disabled, you'll need to
add a rule to your firewall, I'd go through this but there are
just too many firewalls around.
Read the start of our
networking articles here..
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At some stage I'll look for the most ICS friendly
ones about though.
Increasing Wifi network
range If your computer
has a weak or low wifi signal the chances are you’re already
experiencing a slow or unreliable connection, read our article
for hints and tips to increase your wireless networking home
signal and range of your computers wireless card.
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Access home router
– Accessing your wireless
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security, increase it, or maybe give your network a new name
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