Thread: Router question (Thinking about going to wireless)
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Old 08-08-2005, 01:22 AM   #2
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to make it secure (so your neighbours can't connect) you have to choose a passcode in the routers config thingy... after that, LINKSYS (assuming you stay with them) generates 4 strings of HEX, generally you use the first one as the password to connect from your laptop.

if your laptop has a linksys network card and software, they make it ridiculously easy to set up. otherwise you just get this connect dialogue where you type in the hex code and click connect, and just check mark some boxes to make it automatically connect to your network each time.

Setting it up is pretty simple, just be careful, my wireless on my laptop seems to d/c quite a bit... while on my computer it never disconnects. Might be because my comp has a linksys wireless adapter, and my router is also linksys (good compatibility) while my laptop's network card isn't a linksys one.
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