Wireless routers allow data from the internet to travel through the router's antenna and broadcast through the air to wireless devices using a wireless adapter. Setting up a wireless router involves running setup software, connecting the router to a computer with an Ethernet cable during setup, creating a wireless network name and password, and potentially manually configuring the router if needed. It is important to enable strong encryption like WPA2 on the wireless network for security. Connections can be tested by using the ping command to check communication with the router.

1. Wireless Routers

2. Wireless Routers

3. Traveling Data By Wireless Routers
The data from the internet will travel through the
antenna,
broadcast through the air and then be received by the
wireless adapter device,
which will be contained inside your computer or laptop.

4. Best Wireless Routers
Medialink Wireless N Router
Linksys EA4500 App-Enabled N900 Dual- Cisco Factory Refurbished Linksys
Band Wireless-N Router with Gigabit and E1200 Advanced Wireless-N Router
USB

5.  On your PC, insert the disc that came with your router, or
download and run the latest version of the router's software
from the vendor website.
 Follow the on-screen instructions. The setup routine will ask
you to connect components in a certain order,
 it may request that you temporarily connect your wireless
router to a computer via an Ethernet cable.
 You will also create a wireless network name and password at
this point.
 If something goes wrong, you may want to consider manually
configuring your wireless router in the next slide.

6.  Connect the wireless router to your computer using an
Ethernet cable.
 Log in to your router’s Web interface by opening a
browser and entering the IP address of your router into
the address bar.
 most routers use a common IP address such as
http://192.168.1.1
http://192.168.0.1
http://192.168.2.1
 Enter the default username and password.
 Default Router Passwords
 http://portforward.com/default_username_password/

7. Use the Web interface to set up a network name and password.

9.  An SSID is the name of a wireless local area network (WLAN). All wireless
devices on a WLAN must employ the same SSID in order to communicate with
each other.
 All the wireless client devices can be connected at their respective data
rates in this mixed mode.

10.  Enable Encryption
 Linksys routers offer several kinds of security protocols
WPA, WPA2 and WEP are the major types.
 The newest and most secure kind of encryption is WPA2. Both
WEP and WPA have already been cracked by hackers. WPA2 is
the most secure.

13. Test Connection
 From the Windows toolbar, click Start and select CMD.
 Write Ping followed by the address of the router, as in this example:
 ping 192.168.1.1
 Click Enter.
 You should see a message like this one:
 Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data
 If the path is working , you see this message:
 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=NN ms TTL=xxx
 If the path is not working, you see this message:
 Request timed out