1. Connect Your Wireless Router and Broadband Modem
To successfully complete the steps below:
- Ensure that you can access the Internet using a "wired" connection to your broadband modem before attempting to establish a wireless Internet connection.
- To complete the installation process, use the order of restarting your wireless equipment as described below, or the connection could fail.
- Your wireless router might have been shipped with an installation CD. Such CDs usually contain installation and troubleshooting information. Load the required software according to the manufacturer's instructions.
- If your Internet Service Provider (ISP) requires a user name and password for Internet access, such as DSL providers do, this information will need to be placed within the wireless router's configuration pages.
Disconnect the power from the broadband cable modem or the Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) modem. Leave the broadband modem disconnected for at least 5 minutes
Power off all of your computers.
Disconnect the power from the wireless router.
Connect one end of a network cable to the broadband modem, and then connect the other end of the network cable to the Internet or WAN port on the wireless router (Figure 1).
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Figure 1:
Wireless Network Numbers reference image above
- Internet
- Broadband Modem
- Wireless Router
- Wireless-Enabled Desktop
- Wireless-Enabled Notebook
Verify that no other cables, such as network cables, USB cables, or serial cables, are connected to these devices.
Connect the power to the broadband modem. Wait for at least 2 minutes for the broadband modem to initialize.
Connect the power to the wireless router. Wait for at least 2 minutes for the wireless router to initialize.
Turn on the computer and try connecting to the wireless router.
If you wireless router shipped with a setup CD, run the CD in your computer now.
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