What is this mysterious wireless router with no instructions? Make/Model? Post the entire nameplate.
More than likely, there is an instruction manual on the CD that came with, or on the web. I'm not sure what anyone else is saying, but yes, you can connect the wireless router router from one of its switch ports to a switch port on your wired router. In this config it is just another switch and wireless access point, not a router. Make sure you disable DHCP on the wireless router, your other router is handling that. As for preventing others from accessing your wireless network, first make it work without security. Then look for a configuration on the router for WPA (not WEP). If you can choose WPA-PSK or WPA-TKIP choose that. Set a nice long PSK (pre-shared key, a.k.a. wireless password) that is random letters and numbers. Take the option to disable SSID broadcast. On the XP laptop, you want to configure wireless using Windows XP, not software that came with the wireless card. This process varies greatly depending on the wireless NIC in the laptop, so make/model of laptop and/or make/model of wireless card are important if you want detailed help. Carl -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Russ Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 12:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Wireless home network There is no supplied manual. All the directions amount to is "Install CD BEFORE plugging in". Hence the google searches and the question to this list (I prefer not to install software unless absolutely necessary). Therefore I have no documentation on how to place two routers on one system (I honestly didn't think it could be done). So you are saying hook this new wireless router into my existing system but not to plug it into the WAN port (I did not understand what he meant when he said that, thanks). This then would make it just another switch right? My original router would then handle all the IP addressing as usual. Okay, cool I like that idea better than replacing my existing router. I have now read all the "WiFi buddies" thread and I donot like the idea of someone able to pop onto my system. The documentation supplied with this router sucks. One leaflet telling me to use the CD before plugging in the supplied USB adapter and an even smaller one for the adapter card he bought. At least when I bought my router it had enough documentation that I could figure it out. Russ -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
