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Wireless Networking
If you plan to setup a wireless network using a wireless router, you will need to use one
computer to set it up.
3. Because the steps to perform depend on the router (or the manufacturer), we will let you perform as
described by their documentation
4. After installing and setting up the wireless router, turn it off and turn the computer off
5. If you didn't yet, install the wireless network card(s) on the other computer(s).
For any computer that doesn't have a wireless network card but has a wired network card,
connect it to a port of the wireless router using an RJ-45 cable. The computers that have a
network card will not need a physical connection to the wireless router:
6. Turn on the router. After a few seconds, turn on the computers one by one.
You may not need to check whether they work at this time or not. We will check this later
Network Connections
Network Setup on First Computer
After establishing the physical or wireless connections of the computers, you can electronically
connect them, test or check that they can "see" each other. Microsoft Windows XP makes
networking ridiculously easy. In fact, when writing these lessons, after physically connecting the
computers to the router and turning everything on, the whole network had been built and there
was no particularly necessary configuration to perform: everything was ready. Still, in the next
few sections, we will pretend that the network is not (yet) working.
To "virtually" connect the network, Microsoft Windows XP provides the Network Setup Wizard,
which is a series of dialog boxes that can guide you in this process. To start this wizard:
Click Yes
Network Setup on Additional Computers
After setting up the network on one computer, you can continue with the next computer. You
two alternatives: you can use the same network wizard or you can use the setup disk you would
have created.
To setup the network on the other computer(s) that will be part of your network:
4. In the second page of the wizard, read the text and click Next
5. In the third page of the wizard, accept the first radio button and click Next
6. In the fourth page of the wizard, in the Computer Description text box, type a short
description that can define or indicate what this computer is used for
7. In the Computer Name text box, type a name that will distinguish this computer in the
network. One of the rules you must observe is that the name must be unique in the
network. This means that you cannot use the same name you have already given to
another computer in the same network:
8. After entering the description and the name of the computer, click Next
9. In the fifth page of the wizard, it is somewhat important (but it is not a requirement) that
you enter the same name you specified for the network of the first computer:
If you specify a different name, you will end up with various networks, which can be
annoying or confusing but would work fine
10. After entering the name of the network, click Next
11. The wizard will try to check if that name was already specified for another computer of the
same network. If it finds that another computer is using that name, then it would allow
this computer to "join" the network. If it finds out that no other computer is using that
name, then it would create it.
After checking the name, the wizard will present you with a summary page:
After reading it, click Next
12. The wizard will then create the necessary files to make this computer part of the network.
After creating the files, it would present a page giving you to option to create a setup disk.
This time, decline by clicking the last radio button
13. Click Next
14. Click Finish
15. You will be asked whether you want to restart the computer or not. Click Yes