safos
@verizon.net
| setting up new wireless network
I have 1 desktop and 2 laptops(wireless).I am connected to DSL with a Westell 327w wireless router modem. I have never set up a home network, but have a basic understanding of my computers. Verizon assures me I can set up a network, but "couldn't" walk me through it. Need help, please. |
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No_Strings
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stevech0
join:2006-09-17
San Diego, CA
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The Westell should have come with a simple, pictorial novice user kind of setup guide. I cannot find such on their website.
Insist that Verizon's tech rep set this up for you or talk you through it on the phone for at least 1 laptop.
All I can do is give you generalities:
No doubt you have the desktop connected by wired ethernet to one of the 4 LAN router ports on the Westell. So you use that PC to login to the Westell to configure the WiFi access that Verizon should have done for you. You do this by taking your desktop's browser to something like
»192.168.1.1 or 0.1 or 2.1 or some such. Should be in the guide. This is normally passworded or you should set a password.
From here, you use the printed guide to do this:
Go to WiFi setup
set SSID to your initials or some such unique thing.
set channel to 1, 6 or 11
set encryption to something; the easiest is WEP128 and it's secure enough but not the best.
Set encryption key for WEP128, as 26 hexadecimal digits, using say, some repeated thing like feed1234 for a total of 26 digits
save
maybe reboot
do the same SSID choice and encryption setup on the laptops
that's the generic setup. THere's lots more but that should get basic things working. |
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SoonerAl
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Norman, OK
|  said by stevech0  :Set encryption key for WEP128, as 26 hexadecimal digits, using say, some repeated thing like feed1234 for a total of 26 digits save maybe reboot Apparently the Westell supports WPA.
»westell WEP and WPA set up
If not the OP should really consider upgrading to a router that supports WPA2/WPA and use a long random key to protect the network.
My wireless security guidelines...
»theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/L···ity.html
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