Setting Up Your Router
Setting up a router for your home network, or even to protect the one computer you are connecting to a cable modem or dsl modem, can be very straight forward. Most people will plug it in, turn on their computer and see everything works — and not even think about the manufacturer shipping it in an insecure mode so that startup is easy.
After you hook up your router and see that it works, there are some basic security settings that you need to change, whether you’re setting up a wireless router or a wired router.
The first thing to remember when setting up a wireless router is that you will have to connect one computer to the router via an Ethernet cable, at least initially and periodically.
You configure the router via the network. So far, so good. But, when you try to configure the router using a wireless connection…
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