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I’ve decided to go Wi-Fi at home. As a professional SEO I’m addicted to computers. Everywhere I go I’m on search for them.

I decide to set up a network at home, so I wont have any problems with my wife when I need to boost my SEO and CPC campaigns and her needs to access her email, etc.

That was a great experience, so I decided to write a small guide to wireless computing.

Basically Wi-Fi is a a set of instructions for configuring radios that allow computers to talk top each other without wires.

Think of WI-Fi as a way to replace all that annoying Internet cables all around your office or home.

How do you get started?

1) You need an Internet connection (D’oh!)
2) You need Wi-Fi equipment - A Wireless card for each computer, and a router (this device will communicate to all computers (this device will communicate to all of the computers).

That’s how it works:

- You’ve got DSL or cable modem - Connected to your provider through the modem
- You now have a Router connected to the modem.
- You’ve got Your computers communicating to the Router using the Wi-Fi cards through radio signals.

It’s that easy.

The router is the heart of the system, typically small device connected to the modem with an Ethernet cable.

All devices connected on your network send and receive signal from the router.

Prices and models vary for routers. I’ll get back to it later at this article.

The set up is straight forward, and usually a manual is provided with your router.

There are 3 main wireless standards that offer a huge difference in speeds and have different applications.

It’s important to consider what you’ll be using wireless for before purchasing

- Do you want just to share an Internet connection?

- Do you have a large space to cover?

- Would you like to stream digital content (YouTube, movies, Facebook, LastFm, music)?

- Would you like to do all of the above simultaneously and make VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol - as Skype)?

Standards Wireless Routers

- G (802.11g) G Standard wireless is suitable for basic files and Internet sharing over small spaces

- XG (802.11g Extreme G) Super G standard wireless is suitable for file, Internet and music streaming/sharing over small areas.

- N (802.11n) This is the future of the wireless. It’s suitable for all applications including streaming High-definition Video across much larger areas Than G or XG products.

- MIMO (multiple in/Multiple out) MIMO is wireless antenna technology which enable wireless coverage over much larger areas.

- EOP (Ethernet over power) Even the best wireless products on the market today, if you have an exceptionally large space to be covered, you can find some areas with limited or no coverage. EOP links these areas via a plug and play device that uses the power circuity in your walls as a network link.

There you go, a small guide to Wireless network.

Cheers

Lucio Dias Ribeiro
SEO Australia - MarketingEasy.net
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Re: Wireless Networking Made Easy - the basics

WarrenDuff
5.00 (Excellent) Vote: WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW!

November 11th

A great article.  However, security with wireless is an issue.  If you have an internet account which you pay for usage, you may want to make sure you prevent people from stealing your wireless and racking up huge bills.

As a general rule, here is what I do to ensure that my wireless networks can not be easily hacked (not I said easily - wireless is not that secure and the script kiddes will find a way in if they want to):

  1. Change the admin password immediately.
  2. Use an obsecure SSID (do not use a company name as that helps identify who you are).
  3. Do not broadcast the SSID.
  4. Lock down the wireless to only use known MAC addresses
  5. Use encryption - the highest you possibly can. 
  6. Turn off your wireless when not in use - may not be practical if you have "always on" computers
  7. Consider subnetting off your wireless network from your wired network (advanced) to ensure that if someone does get into the wireless network, they can't gt into the wired network.

All of these steps combined will assist in making your network harder to hack.  It will not make it hack proof.  As I sit here and type this, I am aware of 6 WIFI networks in range. 2 of which are still using the default settings for SSID. I would be willing to bet that they haven't even changed their admin password! (but I am not going to check).

Don't get caught out!

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Re: Wireless Networking Made Easy - the basics

LucioDiasRibeiro
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November 13th

Hi Warren,
thanks for  your comments, highly  relevant.
I'd like to publish your comment on my site, can you please drop me a line giving me anchor/link to the website you'd like to link for?
Cheers
Lucio Dias Ribeiro
lucio@marketingeasy.net
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