10/31/2023 0 Comments Advanced home network setup![]() ![]() This is the password you use to get into and configure your wireless router with. If the security of your home wireless network is important to you you want to make sure you use a secure admin password. The Administration section is usually in the Advanced section. You’ll normally find the place to do this under a section called Administration. It’s not the same thing as your wireless pass phrase which you use to connect to the Wi-Fi. The admin password is the password you use to connect and configure your wireless router. The first thing you want to do is to change your admin password. Once your stars are all aligned correctly it’s time to log in to the wireless router. These little website addresses are specially configured to find the wireless router and pull up its configuration page. If you don’t know what the IP address is you might be able to find it on a plate on the bottom of the back of the router and if you still can’t find it you can always Google “default router passwords.” Sometimes the wireless router’s IP address will be a little hard to find. Now we can connect to the wireless router’s web interface by opening a web browser and typing in the wireless router’s IP address. You can watch my video on Home Networking Basics to learn more about how DHCP works. Using the magic of DHCP the computer will come up with an IP address obtained from the wireless routers DHCP server. Simply connect an ethernet cable to one of your computers and the other end to one of your wireless routers’ LAN ports and reboot the computer. If that happens you won’t be able to connect to its web interface and configure it. ![]() When introducing a new wireless router to your home network there’s a good chance it will be on a different network than your home devices. In this article, I’m going to avoid the multiple proprietary ways of connecting to the wireless router and stick with the most straightforward way which is the good old-fashioned ethernet cable. You can usually connect using Wi-Fi, an ethernet cable, and some wireless routers will provide a bar code you can use to do the initial configuration with your smartphone. Wireless routers offer a multitude of ways to connect and do the initial configuration. Obviously, to configure a new wireless router we have to connect to it somehow and the way to do this is not always so obvious. ![]()
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