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Reference Manual for the MR814 v3 Cable/DSL Wireless Router
range, interference, signal quality, and security to the picture.
To help overcome potential barriers to successfully using home networks, the table below
identifies how to accomplish such things as connecting to a wireless network, assuring appropriate
security measures are taken, browsing the Internet through your wireless connection, exchanging
files with other computers and using printers in the combined wireless and wired network.
Table 2-1.
A Road Map for How to Get There From Here
If I Want To?
What Do I Do?
Set up a
1. Choose a wireless
wireless
network name
network
(SSID) and, decide if
you need to use
wireless security,
and if so, what
settings to use.
2. Set up the MR814
v3 Cable/DSL
Wireless Router with
settings based on
step 1.
3. Set up the wireless
computers with the
settings from step 2.
Protect my
1. Assure that the
wireless
wireless network
connection
has security
from snooping,
features enabled.
hacking, or
2. Configure my
information
MR814 v3 with the
theft.
security settings of
the wireless
network.
3. Use Windows
security features.
Note: Secure Internet sites such as banks and online merchants use encryption security built into browsers
like Internet Explorer and Netscape. Any wireless networking security features you might implement are in
addition to those already in place on secure Internet sites.
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What's Needed?
• Wireless network
equipment such as the
MR814 v3 Cable/DSL
Wireless Router.
• A computer within the
operating range of the
wireless network. For
guidelines about the range
of wireless networks, see
"Observe Performance,
Placement, and Range
Guidelines".
• A wireless network WEP
security enabled.
• Wireless networking
equipment that supports
WEP, such as the MR814
v3 and all NETGEAR
wireless networking
products.
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How Do I?
To set up the MR814 v3, see
Chapter 3, "Connecting the
Router to the Internet
and follow
the instructions provided.
To learn about wireless
networking technology, see
Appendix D, "Wireless
Networking Basics
for a general
introduction.
To learn about wireless
networking security, see
"Authentication and WEP" on
page
-4.
To use WEP security features,
see
"Implement Appropriate
Wireless
Security" and configure
your MR814 v3 accordingly.
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