Complete newbie when it comes to wireless!

17 May 2005 2:17 PM

Telmore

My wireless connection usually says 'no connections in range' or somesuch.

The other night I got 'A wireless connection is in range connect?' which I
did for a few seconds.

It was something called linksys.

How does this setup work?

Was I piggybacking my someone elses connection?

Tony

17 May 2005 2:25 PM

GTS

Yes

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"Telmore" <Telm***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My wireless connection usually says 'no connections in range' or somesuch.
>
> The other night I got 'A wireless connection is in range connect?' which I
> did for a few seconds.
>
> It was something called linksys.
>
> How does this setup work?
>
> Was I piggybacking my someone elses connection?
>
> Tony
>

17 May 2005 3:41 PM

Malke

Telmore wrote:

> My wireless connection usually says 'no connections in range' or
> somesuch.
>
> The other night I got 'A wireless connection is in range connect?'
> which I did for a few seconds.
>
> It was something called linksys.
>
> How does this setup work?
>
> Was I piggybacking my someone elses connection?
>
> Tony

Yes, you were. Here are some links to help you understand wireless
networking:

Wireless Network Setup Wizard SP2
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0604.mspx

Wireless Information
http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsServer2003/techinfo/overview/wififaq.mspx

Linksys networking information
http://www.linksys.com/edu/

Wireless - Basic Configuration -
http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Config.html
Wireless - Basic Security - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Security.html

Malke

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