apple wireless question..no clue what im doing!!!?
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First, you'll need an airport card or an airport extreme card installed in your mac (assuming you have a mac that's 2000 or newer).  You can pick one up at apple.com or at your local apple store.  They run around $70 to $100.  I got mine with a student discount.  After that is in all you need to do is follow the instructions for installing it.  after that just pop in the installation CD that came with it and follow the on screen instructions.  If you need help just call apple.  Then all you need is a router with wireless capabilities.  Look for one that says something like 802.11b/g of just 802.11g.  That will also come with instructions on how to set it up on a mac.  Once it's set up you're ready to go.
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The best way I find to set up a Wireless network is this:\n\n1. Broadcast your SSID, on your wireless router.\n\n2. You may want to set Encoding (WEP or WPA) at this point.\n\n3. Get ALL your wireless Devices connected to the network devices. Make sure that your network is a Preferred network on your wireless Devices.\n\n4. Turn off your SSID Broadcast.\n\nThe name can be picky. Using "Dave" is not the same as using "dave"
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set-up wireless connection
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Carl, you have two separate things to do. Switch on the Firewall on your Mac and harden your Wireless LAN.\n\nOn 10.4.8...\nSwitching on the Firewall can be done via the 'Sharing' panel in System Prefs. When in the Sharing panel choose the Firewall tab. This gives you a list of the services you can allow access to when the firewall is on. Obviously the more you switch on the less secure your machine will be. When you have selected the ports you want open start the Firewall. \n\nTo lock out the Wireless Lan I would recommend that you set up WEP or WPA encryption. and change the key at least once a month. The information broadcast on your WLAN can be captured by a hacker and then various techniques can be used to find the 'key'. If the key is obvious it can be found in an hour or less. If it is a non dictionary word it will take longer. Changing your key on a regular basis will force a hacker to recapture and analysis the data again. With luck they will turn to another WLAN to hack.\n\nYou should also enable access control using the MAC address of the WLAN card. This will limit casual users from gaining access to your WLAN.\n\nYou don't say which Wireless Router or Access Point you are using. Most devices use a wizard to set-up the WLAN. If not look for the 'security settings' for WEP or WPA encryption and 'Access Control' for the mac address settings.
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It used to be iblitzz.com but that site is down, as is their toll free tech support number. You might try driversguide.com! We should have known better than to buy wireless equipment at Walmart :{
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download sun wireless SDK. There is a demo to show how you do it.
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Put a password on it use the WEP option on your wireless configuration settings and set a password to your connection.\n\nIf you have D-LINK or netgear go to this site http://www.webhazard.com/html/how_to_set_wep.html and it will give you step by step directions.\n\nIf you have Linksys go to http://micro.uoregon.edu/homenetworking/linksys/ and it will give you directions on how to set it.\n\nIf you have neither, then just contact me and I can give you directions. I need to know what kind of router you have.
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Your computer either needs a built-in wireless\ncapability (which is becoming universal on new\nlaptops) or you need a plug-in wireless card\n(which are $40 on a bad day, $10 with a good sale).\n\nYou also need to have the required drivers installed\nfor which ever OS you're running (ie. Windows).
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HI there...consider visiting and joining the free Apple Discussion forum: http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa  Someone here most likely will have tried this and be able to walk you through on the setup.
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Here are a few things of interest:\n\n* On your access point, you should enable "Hide SSID" to prevent unwanted computers from detecting your access point. \n\n* You should also enable "MAC filtering" to limit access to specific computers only.\n\n* Do not use WEP security. It has been hacked to death. Use WPA-Personal.
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Use WPA instead of WEP if your router is older and doesn't have wpa then use WEP.  Secondly, of course change the password on the router itself.  Next, change the default ssid and change it so that the ssid is not broadcast.  Finally, set it up so that only certain MAC address are able to access the network (yourself included :)  ).  You really should do all these things to make your home network secure, you really shouldn't pick and choose.
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I can only suggest that you buy a better router.  \n\nNow by wireless do you mean there is no router in your house and it comes from a different source?  If so get a better wireless router.  \n\nIf you have one in your house and it receives the signal for you then try getting closer to your router.  If this does not work your router may need to be replaced.\n\n\nAre you talking about a cell phone?  If so try getting a cell phone signal booster.  Try the link below to get an idea of what they do. \n\nIf you need more help email me and I can help you.\n\ngood luck.
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go to network connections in control panel, and view wireless networks, ig none are dhown, click refresh, and when it shows it click on connect, also make sure windows has installed drivers for you wireless adapter or built in card, it may not be installed
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I don't expect to "win" as the best answer, but I have to stress to anyone that reads this - MAC Filtering is USELESS.\n\nThis was the second attempt to increase security on WLAN's (Wireless LANS).  The first attempt was to stop broadcasting the SSID in the Beacon Frames.\n\nOnce both of these mechanisms were defeated, good old WEP came out and now it's crackable in less than 5 minutes.\n\nAnyone with a free Wi-Fi Sniffer (very easy google search download) can listen to which MAC's are associated to the Access Point.  This SAME software will send constant dis-associate frames to the client using the AP's MAC address.\nOnce the client is dis-associated, the software will now let the intruder associate with the AP using the valid Client's MAC.\n\nAgain, completely useless, adds nothing but administrative overhead.\n\nFor consumer brand Access Points, change the default SSID to something unique, change the administration user id and password, and turn on WPA-PSK (Pre-Shared Key).\n\nAny Windows XP client can be easily configured to associate with the Accss Point simply knowing the SSID and the PSK.\n\nGood Luck :)
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You need to open the configuration on your wireless device and create a WEP 128 HEX key for your device. (or not create a secure network for everyone to hyjack). Enter that key into the airport settings for your network name. Plug the mac into the router and then use safari to open 192.168.1.1 and you should get a admin screen, the admin login is blank but the default password is "admin". That takes you to the control screens and you turn on the wireless part. Assign the WEP key and your're off. Its really quite simple.
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have u installed all the software that came the router,\n\nif it is a wireless router i think you need to hard wire it to your pc in the first instance to set it up, when it is set up then activate the wireless option
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I can tell you *what* you have to do, in order to secure a wirelss network. *How* you have to do it depends very much on the particular wireless devices you have - check their documentation. (When all else fails, Read The Fine Manual, you know...)\n\nFirst, let me begin by telling that enabling WEP encryption is not enough. It is a weak encryption algorithm that can be easily broken by an attacker. You should use WPA encryption instead - provided that your wireless devices support it. You should also choose a strong (difficult to guess) password for it.\n\nNext, configure your network not to broadcast its SSID.\n\nFinally, you should configure your router to allow only your devices to join the network. The devices are recognized by their MAC address - basically, configure the router to deny access to all devices that have MAC addresses other than those that your devices have. Since in your cases the devices are desktops, you can determine their MAC addresses by opening a command prompt window and running the program "ipconfig /all" (without the quotes) - the MAC address is listed in the field labeled "Physical address".\n\nOh, and please understand that a determined attacker can penetrate a WiFi network, even if it is secured like this. (MAC addresses can be spoofed, WPA encryption can be cracked too, although it's more difficult, the SSID can be determined even if it is not broadcasted, and so on.) Basically, there is no way to secure a WiFi network completely; you can only do a pretty good job of securing it.