It is better to do it directly with the PC connected to the router. You can
do it wirelessly, but once you change the network security key in the router
and set it up, you will lose wireless access until you enter your secured
network again.
----- Original Message -----
From: "graham smith" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Accessing Linksys Menus
Hi
We have a small network here, our main pc is connected to the router and
three other pc's are wireless. We unsecured the networkd a while ago
because we could not get one of the wireless laptops to connect because we
needed some name or something and it was running under Vista, the other
two xp machines connected just fine. The Vista connection set up windows
differed from those of xp and we just could not get the correct info in to
enable it. Resetting solved the problem but now we would like to secure
our network again.
Your instructions are very good, I was just wondering can I do the
securing of the network on my laptop which is running wireless from the
router or does it have to be done through the maip pc that is connected to
the router? I only have Jaws on my laptop.
Appreciate any help
Graham
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann Byrne" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Accessing Linksys Menus
If you forget the address, you can go to the DOS prompt and type in
ipconfig and the router address, as well as your computer address will be
displayed.
You access the linksys router by entering in the link
http://192.168.1.1
This assumes that nobody has changed the router address. If they have,
then you need to either know the new address, or do a hard reset on the
router by holding a point of a ballpoint pen or paperclip in on the reset
button for about thirty seconds.
If you reset the router in this way, the default router address is the
192.168.1.1 as I mentioned above. The password to enter the router setup
screen is admin.
When you enter the router setup screen, the first page that is displayed
has your settings to connnect the router to the internet. There are
radio buttons for cable, PPPOE (DSL), as well as some specialized
settings for services in Europe or Australia.
There are other screens which you might need. These are displayed as
links on the top of the page. For example, if you want wireless, you
will need to go to the wireless link and select the radio button to
enable wire.ess. You might also be able to choose what wireless standard
you want, B, G, or N or mixed. Unless all your devices are running the
same wireless protocol, select Mixed. If you are going to use a Braille
notetaker, some of them won't respond if you have a mixed network
including N, so you may need to select B/G mixed.
Once you open the wireless section, there is also a link to set up
wireless security. Unless you are in an extremely isolated area, you
need to have some security level set. Your choices are open (no
security), WEP or WPA/PSK. WEP is much weaker and can be pretty easily
cracked. Choose WPA and you will be able to enter a security password.
Every computer or anything else which logs into your network wirelessly
will need to use that password.
The other thing that I would set or change on your router is the
administrative password. This will prevent anybody from changing your
router's settings. Go into the administration link and change your
password to something other than the default of Admin.
Steve
Lansing, MI
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan & Terrie Robbins"
<[email protected]>
To: "Jaws-Users-List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 10:20 AM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Accessing Linksys Menus
My son has given me a wireless 4 port Linksys router. Since
I do not want a repeat of my catastrophe yesterday could
someone kindly send me step by step instructions as to how
to access the menu in the router and make the changes I want
to. Please include the IP address I need to use
thanks
Al
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