What Is The Best Wireless Solution For My Business?

Determining which wireless router for your SME or large enterprise can prove to be a confusing and time consuming task.  The numerous reviews coupled with the latest introduction of 802.11ac routers make the purchase of a wireless access point a complex experience.

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Choosing the best router for your business can be simplified if you understand exactly what you are buying.  The vendors which manufacture routers will make huge promises in terms of router performance, connectivity, coverage, and the capability to handle data intensive tasks.  Then you read the conflicting consumer reviews which may or may not offer reliable information which results in a confusing and frustrating effort.

There is a high probability you are likely more confused after doping research than when you started.  Additionally, many businesses are questioning whether or not they should consider an 802.11ac router which is the newest connectivity standard in an effort to prepare for the next generation of wireless devices.

Computer 101: A Dual Band Wireless Router

The wireless router is an important part of wireless network for home and office used. But getting the right wireless router can be a really tough job. As always you need to know what is your main requirements to get the right wireless router for your needs. Would you like more basic information about the dual band wireless router? Would you like to learn a little bit additional information with regards to just what a dual band wireless router is? You have surely come to the right place, if so.

Here in this short article, we’re going to discuss the dual band wireless router generally and a few things that you should absolutely keep in mind. When it comes to the dual band wireless router, there’s a lot of data that you can educate yourself on and if you’re searching for information and facts, you will definitely want to read over these details.

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With regards to connecting to the web, a dual band wireless router certainly is the preferred tool that a majority of homeowners as well as businesses will require. This is simply because the dual band wireless router is considered the most efficient method to connect your computer to the web, whether it’s a personal computer or perhaps a business computer. Anytime you are within the range of the wireless router, a dual band wireless router will provide you internet access.

One of the most important things to think about in relation to dual band wireless routers is security. In most cases, individuals will set up a password to protect their wireless internet and be sure that it is secured. For free, anyone within the range of your wireless router may use your internet if it is unsecured. This is definitely not a good thing because the security of all of your interactions on the internet and the security of your computer generally speaking is not something that you will want to mess around with. You have to be extremely careful as a myriad of hazardous things can occur like people hacking into your e-mail or your social networking accounts, viruses, etc. It’s always better to be safe than sorry.

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When you are utilizing a dual band wireless network, another reason you definitely want to make sure that your wireless internet is secure is simply because you do not want other individuals utilizing the web for free when you have to pay a monthly fee for it. That is hardly fair, and you’ll find that lots of people may take advantage of you.

When you are considering dual band wireless routers, one more thing you have to bear in mind is to make sure that you obtain one that has received great customer reviews. You can check out the particular dual band wireless router that you are thinking about. Then you can search all the pages and read different customer reviews on the net. Make sure that other people have had excellent results with their dual band wireless routers prior to making a decision about which one to get.

Two very important things that you need to be guaranteed to consider are getting the right dual band wireless router and making sure that your internet is secure.

Among the best ways to establish the very best wireless routers is to study a number of the various dual band router reviews. You will then be capable of making a knowledgeable selection.

Setting up a Wireless Network in Your Home – P3

So far let’s check what we have and where we are in our goal of having or setting up a wireless home network. First we need a suitable Internet broadband connection from the local Internet Service Provider. Once we have taken care of that we need to find a wireless router to make the home internet connection wireless. Remember we are setting up a home internet connection so it should not be so hard in getting a wireless router for our requirements.  For setting it up the easiest way is to get a professional help to setup the wireless router. But I have found some resources in the internet that it is easy to setup a wireless router and every one of them is saying it is easy to setup that device. 

Well that is a yes if you have an intermediate level of technical knowledge in going through all those menus and configuring a wireless router. For one just accessing the configuration page of a router is quite tricky. First you need to know the default IP address of a wireless router to access it via the internet browser. If you know what is an IP address look like and how to use it then I think you can setup the wireless router by yourself. But is you do not know what is an IP address and does not know how to use it then do not setup by yourself. I suggest in contacting a professional help in setting it up for you.

But before you do that we need to know how to connect the big old desktop that we have in our home. Sure we have the entire latest internet enable WIFI device but we still have a computer desktop in our home that everybody uses. So how do we connect this computer? Since our objective is a wireless home network, a cable connection from the desktop to the wireless router is out of the picture. So what do we need for the desktop for a WI-Fi connection? Enter the Wireless Network Adapter, the what?

Wireless network adapters

A network adapter is a device that connects your computer to a network. To connect your laptop or desktop computer to your wireless network, the computer must have a wireless network adapter. Most laptops—and many desktop computers—come with a wireless network adapter already installed But if your desktop is n earlier model then chances are it has no wireless network adapter. What does a wireless network adapter look like? But there are still non USB base wireless adapter and they look different. Also there are at least five different type of a wireless network adapter, each suited for different use and connections. A picture of the wireless network adapter and another type of the same name is display below.

Now we need a device similar to the one display above, it may be different in color and brand but all wireless network adapters will function the same and that is to connect any device whenever it is attach to it. In our case we need to connect a desktop computer to the internet then this is the device that we need for that purpose. Another thing we also need to configure this one we need to give it a password to let it connect safely on the network. This device can be plug-in into the computer in any usb port since this is a USB based device once plug-in we do not need to remove it from the desktop computer.  This is the last piece of wireless device that we need to complete our wireless home network. If you are new to setting up a home wireless network you might want to get a help in setting up the wireless device like the router and wireless network adapters to make them secure and free of unwanted or unauthorized network user.

How about you any tips on how to build a home wireless network?

Setting up a Wireless Network in Your Home – P2

In setting up a wireless network in your home we need the Broadband internet connection from your Internet Service Provider, then another device called a Modem which was discussed in detail on my last post is also needed, this device will be provided by your ISP when they setup and configure the internet connection on your home. Now we go to that third device that we will need to complete the setup of the wireless network in your home. But before we go there added information once your internet connection has been setup and the modem configured properly by the ISP of your choosing you can now test the internet connection by connecting your laptop or desktop to the modem via a cable patch. This means you will need a cable with connector at both ends to connect to the modem, since the modem has no capacity to distribute the internet connection by itself and only one computer can be connected to the modem via the cable patch. This cable patch should be included together with your modem. This will allow you to verify your internet connection via your laptop or desktop.

Now since our objective is to setup a wireless network in your home we will need one more device that will allow us to distribute the internet connection and allowing our entire internet capable device to connect without using a single piece of cable or wire. For these we need a wireless router, the function of these routers is to distribute the internet connection via radio signal or via cable connection. Which can be both achieved via this device called a Wireless Router. Now why do we need to include the word wireless, because there are two kinds of router the wireless one and there is the cable only router. The main difference of the two is that the other one the cable only router has no antenna therefore it cannot send radio signal and therefore cannot distribute internet connection to any computer or internet capable device. This type of router is mainly used in business where the need for wireless connection is not required or necessary. Now what is a wireless router?

Wireless router

A router sends information between your network and the Internet. With a wireless router, you can connect computers to your network using radio signals instead of wires. There are a few different types of wireless network technologies, including 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g. We recommend using a router that supports 802.11g because it is fast and provides a strong wireless signal. The wireless router is the one that is going to distribute the internet connection in your home to all devices within range typically 150 to 300 feet but may vary depending on the structure present in the area of location where the router is located. Now by connecting a wireless router on the modem the wireless router will now be able to distribute the internet connection in your home. 

But wait will my neighbor also get connected as well? The answer to that is a big YES they will be able to get an internet access if they are near you or typically within the range of the wireless router. To solve this problem we need to secure our wireless router. Now wait a minute how to I do that? I do not know anything about wireless router. Some say that is it easy to setup a wireless router in your home, well I say it is not because there are a lot of configuration inside a router and first of all a technical background of accessing the router via the internet protocol address is require before one could access the configuration of a wireless router. It would require a couple more articles to write about setting up a home wireless router because we need a lot of information regarding what is the common configuration used for most type of router available for home used.  For now get a qualified technician to setup your wireless router and to make it secure allowing only you and your household member to have access to the internet connected in your home. Once the wireless router is properly setup and secured not even your neighbor can have access to the router to your internet connection. Because if they try to connect to a secured wireless router they connection will require them to inter a password that will grant them an internet connection. 

Try as they may if they do not know the password for connection they will not be able to connect therefore giving you a piece of mine that you and only the member of your family will be able to have access to the wireless router. Another when setting up all your wireless enabled devices to connect to the router for the first it will require you to input a password for the connection once this is verified to be correct then your device will registered and every time you open your laptop, tablet and Smartphone they will be able to connect immediately to the wireless router automatically. The password verification is only done once; this is on the first time connection only every succeeding connection by the registered device will be dome automatically. Also only new device will be required to register for internet connection to the wireless router. How about for desktop computer, how will it connect to the wireless router? More on my next post.

Continue to Part 3 of this post:


Quick Tips:

Positioning the wireless router

Put your wireless router somewhere where it will receive the strongest signal with the least amount of interference. For the best results, follow these tips:

• Position your wireless router in a central location. Place the router as close to the center of your home as possible to increase the strength of the wireless signal throughout your home.
• Position the wireless router off of the floor and away from walls and metal objects, such as metal file cabinets. The fewer physical obstructions between your computer and the router's signal, the more likely that you'll be using the router's full signal strength.
• Reduce interference. 802.11g networking equipment uses a 2.4 gigahertz (GHz) radio frequency. This is the same frequency as most microwaves and many cordless phones. If you turn on the microwave or get a call on a cordless phone, your wireless signal might be temporarily interrupted. You can avoid most of these issues by using a cordless phone with a higher frequency, such as 5.8 GHz.