CONFIGURING ACCESS POINTS

Abstract:

Wireless Connectivity - The netgear Wireless router provides continuous, reliable access to network resources and the Internet. It acts as a wireless access point, router and firewall.

Experiment: 

Configuring and exploring different functions of netgear and creating an access point.

After logging in the cms domain using my user id and password, I type ipconfig/all at the command line interface

We are using netgear 108 Mbps Wireless Firewall Router with model numberWGT624.

Open your browser and type http://192.168.0.1 in the address bar of the browser. This will open the login page of the wireless router. A small login window appears. Enter the username as ‘admin’ and the password, ‘password’.

The netgear settings page will appear similar to this.

Click the setup wizard on the upper left corner of the page and finish the setup process following the screen prompts.

The most important setting that we should be concerned about are the wireless settings.

The screen is as shown in the figure below

Wireless connectivity:

We can see that the IP addresses have also changed and the gateway IP address is now that of the netgear router.

Join now!

Checking router status:

Router status can be referred to view the settings and statistics of the router. If there is any change to be made in particular settings, LAN Port for example, we have to go to the corresponding tab on the left hand side and make the changes.

After selecting the show statistics, connection status from the submenus we can see the connected devices, their physical and IP addresses.

Security Encryption:

I enter the key “11C5A112ED” in iPAQ which is now connected.

SSID Broadcast:

By turning the SSID Broadcast off ...

This is a preview of the whole essay