Each owner of the laptop or personal computer thinks about connection of these devices to the Internet sooner or later. Usually this work is performed by specialists of provider. But when it is required to provide with Internet access several computers at the same time, it is necessary to be engaged in setup independently.
It is required to you
- Wi-Fi router
- network cables
Instruction
1. Before achieving existence of connection with the Internet from all your laptops and computers, it is necessary to integrate them in the general local area network. For the solution of this task there are several ways. You can create the wireless, wire or combined local area network.
2. Let's consider the most difficult option: creation and setup of the combined local area network. Get Wi-Fi the router. The only important requirement to this device – existence of several ports LAN for wire connection of computers.
3. Connect Wi-Fi the router to any laptop and the computer, using for this purpose the network cable. Connect one its end to the network interface card of the computer, and another – to LAN port of the router.
4. Open the browser and enter the router IP address in an address bar. It can be found in the instruction to the device, but most often it is the following addresses: http://192.168.1.1 or http://192.168.0.1. Enter the login and the password for access to settings. These data also contain in the instruction.
5. Open the Setup of Network or Internet Setup point. Fill all necessary fields, such as: access point, login, password and type of the data transfer protocol. You can specify all these parameters at your provider.
6. Open wireless network setup of Wi-fi. In the English version this point is called Wireless Setup. Enter a name and the password of your future wireless network. Specify radio signal type, for example: 802.11g, and data encryption type, for example: WPA2-PSK.
7. Save the changed settings and reboot the router. If in its menu there is no Reset function, then power off the router for 15-20 seconds.
8. Connect computers to the router by means of network cables. Connect laptops to wireless access point.