One of the major issues people usually complain is about the weak signal strength of the wireless connection. Although the wireless router says that it can cover a radius of 10 meters but when you’re sitting in the room just below the wireless router is placed, signals starts to distort and bytes are lost.
These problems occur due to a lot of reasons, like objects and other wireless equipment interfering the router signals. To fix all these problem and strengthen the wireless router signal strength, I am sharing different points to help you with it.
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If you neighbor has been leeching off your home network and messing around will the things you have shared over the network, then its about time you add protection to your home network will the three following things I am about to share.Through this tutorial, I will guide you through on setting up your router settings to enable maximum protection, by turning off SSID broadcasting, allowing only certain MAC addresses and enable the encryption.
Turning off SSID broadcasting
Open your browser and type in 192.168.1.1 in the address bar and hit Enter. You will be prompted to enter your username and password to login. The default username is admin and the default password is password, if you haven’t changed it off course.
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Earlier I told you guys on sharing internet between vista computers and while I was writing that article my friend called me over to his place fix sharing internet between his new Vista PC and the other Windows XP PC.
After sometime, I managed to solve the problem and today I will sharing it with you guys so you can easily connect your two PCs together.
The latest feature introduced by Microsoft called Windows Vista Network Map, really makes networking really easy but does not help when you connect your Windows XP with it.
After trying everything on my PC, I came to check if workgroups has to do something with networking two PCs together, and there it was. The default workgroup for windows XP is MSHOME; while for Windows Vista, it is WORKGROUP. So the change in the default workgroups creates the first issue.
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If you want to connect two computers together and want to share internet, with this tutorial, you can easily do it. You won’t need any networking softwares or long wasted hours of configuring your hardware. If you want to share internet, simple begin with setting up your internet connection to your service provider. Simply skip this step if you only want to network your computers to only transfer your data. Then use the Network Setup Wizard to configure the computer.
To begin with, connect the two computers. Click on Start, righclick on Network and choose properties from the menu. There you will see the Network and Sharing Center window, click manage network connection.
Once you see the network connection window, there you will see two active network connection, the first one will your internet connection and other from your computer to the other.
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