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Wireless Router trouble shooting for the Famously Frustrated

1. Open up internet explorer type in http://192.168.1.1 under password type admin1 and proceed to your router interface. Most people don’t even know how to go to their router interface. Linksys wireless routers all have default passwords of admin1 or admin. Your wireless routers interface is where your entire configuration takes place. If you don’t know your routers default password just go to google and type in your routers model number and “Default password” some website will have it.

2. Reset your router - Some times after many changes and many restarts your routers configuration files can get messed up. Even after you many changes via your routers web interface they won’t stick. So you might need to Reset you router by Taking a Paper clip and pressing the button in back of the router for about thirty seconds. This will reset it and give you a fresh start.

3. Reset Part Two, another option to reset your wireless router is to proceed to your wireless routers web interface and find the setting that says factory defaults.

4. Upgrade your wireless routers firmware. If you purchase a new wireless router and it isn’t working you will want to upgrade the firmware. Firmware is the programs that run on the wireless routers motherboard. Up can download your wireless routers firmware from the manufactures website. Follow the directions to a tee or you will brick your router. Tips do not upgrade your wireless routers firmware via a wireless connection and don’t turn off the wireless router when it is in the middle of upgrading.

5. Bad signal = Bad Placement before you return your wireless router because you don’t get a signal place it in a new spot. Remember the default Di-Pole omni-directional antennas do not transmit from the tips they transmit from the sides radiating in a doughnut type pattern. So if you have your wireless router near a outside wall half your signal is going outside.

6. Can’t acquire a network address means that you don’t have your wireless routers DHCP settings configured or your wireless adapters not configured correctly?

7. If you can’t seem to connect to a wireless router even through you know that you have the correct pass phrase, the wireless router might have might have MAC address filtering on. Either add your MAC address to the filter or disable it.

8. If you keep seeing your wireless adapter connecting and reconnecting then you might have interference from somewhere so change your channel to something else.

9. Can’t get to the Internet but can connect to the wireless router? Then go to your wireless routers web interface and check to see if you have a DHCP address from your Internet provider. If you do or you don’t try to renew it then you might be able to connect.

10. After many hours of trouble shooting a wireless router and you still can’t figure out what to do just go to google and type in your wireless router model and trouble shooting and you will find many more tips
10.5 If all that dosen’t work smash it with a hammer, it won’t make it work but at least you will feel better.

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Wireless technology has literally changed our lives. This up and coming method of communication has literally changed the way we live. Many of us cannot imagine a day without using a wireless device. In fact, we use them so much, that we barely recognize them as wireless anymore.

Telephone lines were originally designed to send news reports. Ever heard of getting something over the wire? Journalists still refer to their Associated Press reports as coming over the AP wire, though they most likely travel through the air like all other pieces of information. The invention of the radio demolished the idea of news sent over a wire. In fact, it completely destroyed the concept of the telegraph and eventually the landline telephone.

Computer networking works in a similar manner. Who would choose an immobile stationary system over a wireless one? Why would you choose to actually be chained to a desk when you could move freely about, accessing the internet and other files on a network from the comfort of a couch, a recliner, or a coffee shop. Additionally, while many believe that wireless costs more, this price too is going down, and soon anyone will be able to afford a wireless connection.

WiMAX, short for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, is steadily making its way unto the wireless market. Its biggest advantage lies in the distance that it spans. Instead of a wireless connection reaching a few meters, it will reach kilometers. Currently some of the strongest WiMAX network reach over 30 miles. It literally spans the length of metropolitan areas, and thus with WiMax, you’ll no longer have to search for hot spot sign. Check out wimax.weblongsinc.com for more information about this up and coming form of wireless technology.

Bluetooth has become a mysterious wireless term to non-geeks, but its quickly becoming a household word thanks to its technology in cellular phones. Bluetooth basically is a way to connect hardware. The hope is that instead of seeing a mass of cords behind your television, you’ll just have the necessary blue tooth hardware, a wireless connection that connects your DVD player to your television. Everyone hates those mass of wires, or any mass of wires that threatens to ruin the aesthetics of a room, and Bluetooth has the potential to improve the look of just about any system.

Eventually wireless technology will make life simpler. We’ll be able to do things in places that we never imagined before. After all, who would think that you could contact a person from across the globe while sitting in a cafe across town, with no cost to either of you. Grandparents in California can talk to their grandkids in Florida while soaking in the rays on the beach. I predict that not only will wireless make life simpler in the future, but that we’ll function with it so smoothly, that we won’t even notice the wireless technology.

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Many consider wireless as one of the greatest inventions in the history of mankind. Some would even compare it to sliced bread. For them, wiring up a network is just as easy as slicing one’s bread.

The biggest benefit of wireless is that it makes things simpler. You’re not bound by wires to connect your computers at home or at the office. The computers are connected to the network with the use of wireless technology using radio signals.

However, some ask, “Why is there a need for a wireless network?” The following are some good reasons:

Internet Access Sharing

Wireless offers an affordable and easy means to share internet connection with multiple PCs. This usually will not require more than one modem. Also, you can add additional computers to your network by simply plugging in the wireless card and switching them on. Then, they too can have an internet connection.

Sharing Printers and Files

Wireless networks also offer easy file access regardless of which part of the house you are in. It allows easy transfer of the files between your laptops and desktops.

Always Connected

One reason for broadband today is that, you can have an always on connection to the internet. And wireless networks complement this fact. Wireless network technology runs at speeds far greater than broadband internet access easily connecting multiple computers to the internet simultaneously.

Wires? Set them aside

This would be the most important reason to change your old network to wireless. We all know, wires are inconvenient, dangerous and ugly.

Wireless means no more wires. There will be no spaghetti on your floors and corners anymore. This does not only improve the security of your house, it also lessens the danger of tripping or fire.

Play Internet and LAN Games

Wireless LANs allow your entire family is to play a game together without needing to bring your computers closer together. You could also invite other opponents such as your friends and ask them to bring their own PCs. With the wireless network connected to your PS2 or Xbox, playing an online game goes to a whole new level.

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