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Safeguarding Your Network, Planning Your Wireless Network
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Chapter 2 Safeguarding Your Network For a wireless connection, the SSID, also called the wireless network name, and the wireless security setting must be the same for the wireless router and wireless computers or wireless adapters. NETGEAR strongly recommends that you use wireless security. Warning: Computers can connect wirelessly at a range of several hundred feet. This can allow others outside of your immediate area to access your network. This chapter includes: • "Planning Your Wireless Network" • "Manually Configuring Your Wireless Settings" on page 2-4 • "Using Push 'N' Connect (WPS) to Configure Your Wireless Network" on page 2-13 • "Connecting Additional Wireless Client Devices After WPS Setup" on page 2-18 • "Restricting Access to Your Router" on page 2-20 Note: For information about restricting access to USB storage devices, see "Configuring USB Storage Advanced Settings" on page 7-7. Planning Your Wireless Network For compliance and compatibility between similar products in your area, the operating channel and region must be set correctly. To configure the wireless network, you can either specify the wireless settings, or you can use WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) to automatically set the SSID and implement WPA/WPA2 security. • To manually configure the wireless settings, you must know the following: - SSID. The default SSID for the wireless router is NETGEAR. 2-1 v1.3, October 2009