some basic terminology of Wireless routers and how they work?
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How Routers Work.. (Basically - lol)\n\nThe Internet is one of the 20th century's greatest communications developments. It allows people around the world to send e-mail to one another in a matter of seconds, and it lets you read, among other things, the articles in Verizon's Learning Center. We're all used to seeing the various parts of the Internet that come into our homes and offices -- the Web pages, e-mail messages and downloaded files that make the Internet a dynamic and valuable medium. But none of these parts would ever make it to your computer without a piece of the Internet that you've probably never seen. In fact, most people have never stood "face to machine" with the technology most responsible for allowing the Internet to exist at all: the router.\n\nRouters are specialized computers that send your messages and those of every other Internet user speeding to their destinations along thousands of pathways. This article looks at how these behind-the-scenes machines make the Internet work. \n\nRouters Keep The Messages Moving\nWhen you send e-mail to a friend on the other side of the country, how does the message know to end up on your friend's computer, rather than on one of the millions of other computers in the world? Much of the work to get a message from one computer to another is done by routers, because they're the crucial devices that let messages flow between, rather than within, networks. \n\n\n\nImagine a small company that makes animated 3-D graphics for local television stations. There are 10 employees of the company, each with their own computer. Four of the employees are animators, while the rest are in sales, accounting and management. The animators will need to send lots of very large files back and forth to one another as they work on projects. To do this, they'll use a network. \n\nWhen one animator sends a file to another, the very large file will use up most of the network's capacity, making the network run very slowly for other users. One of the reasons that a single intensive user can affect the entire network stems from the way that Ethernet works. Each information packet sent from a computer is seen by all the other computers on the local network. Each computer then examines the packet and decides whether it was meant for their address. This keeps the basic plan of the network simple, but has performance consequences as the size of the network, or level of network activity increases. To keep the animators' work from interfering with that of the folks in the front office, the company sets up two separate networks, one for the animators and one for the rest of the company. A router links the two networks and connects both networks to the Internet.\n\n------------------------------------------------------\n\nThe router is the only device that sees every message sent by any computer on either of the company's networks. When an animator sends a huge file to another animator, the router looks at the recipient's address and keeps the traffic on the animator's network. When an animator, on the other hand, sends a message to the bookkeeper asking about an expense-account check, then the router sees the recipient's address and forwards the message between the two networks. \n\nOne of the tools a router uses to decide where a packet should go is a configuration table. A configuration table is a collection of information, including: \n\nInformation on which connections lead to particular groups of addresses \nPriorities for connections to be used \nRules for handling both routine and special cases of traffic \nA configuration table can be a simple as a half-dozen lines in the smallest routers, but can grow to massive size and complexity in the very large routers that handle the bulk of Internet messages. \n\nA router, then, has two separate but related jobs. First, the router ensures that information doesn't go where it's not needed. Th
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What make and model is the router?
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There are various ways of setting up security on routers, you can change the default password for login, disable the broadcast of the SSID, setup various wireless security, Linksys has very good tech support so call them for assistance or check out their knowledge base as well
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It is a device that you can use to share your internet access for your PCs at home (or work) similar to a network hub (connection splitter) but it does it wirelessly. You connect the wireless router to your cable modem (or DSL modem) and then your computers can access the internet all at the same time. Of course, you have to set it up first. Your computers will also need a wireless card, so they can talk to the router. Most routers also have a hardware firewall, which gives you better protections. Here is a link you can use to read more about how they actually work:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_router
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Yes, what about it? Complete sentances are a good thing.\n\nWill assume you mean how do I setup my wireless Linksys router with SBC aDSL so that my wirless network is secure?\n\nWhat Linksys product do you have? What wireless devices do you have and what do they support?\n\nWEP is not secure but better than nothing. MAC address filtering is something else to help stop users from connecting to your network but again it is not secure. For the average home users we setup WPA-PSK with a strong key, turn off SSID broadcasting and MAC filtering if all devices support that.
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WIFI: Short for ‘wireless fidelity’. A term for certain types of wireless local area networks (WLAN) that use specifications conforming to IEEE 802.11b. WiFi has gained acceptance in many environments as an alternative to a wired LAN. Many airports, hotels, and other services offer public access to WiFi networks so people can log onto the Internet and receive emails on the move. These locations are known as hotspots.\n\nBROADBAND: Broadband comes from the words "broad bandwidth" and is used to describe a high-capacity, two-way link between an end user and access network suppliers capable of supporting full-motion, interactive video applications.
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They should hook up automatically, most wireless routers allow upto 4 wireless devices.  Be more specific, what devices?
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the wireless router needs to be configured to send the incoming data cleanly through the router to the wireless machine.\n\ncurrently because you haven't setup the port which limewire uses in the router it is limiting your connection.\n\nchoose your make and model of router on this page and you'll get detailed instructions on forwarding a port in your router:\nhttp://www.portforward.com/english/applications/port_forwarding/Limew/Limewindex.htm
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G'day,\n\nWireless access point if a hardware where you can connect your computer/hardware thru wireless network.  You have mentioned Netgear Wireless router, which I assume you have got it or considering buying it.\n\nIt is a router, which means that it can distribute one single internet connection into several computers, through wired or wireless method (as wireless access point).  To have wireless connection, your computer need to have a wireless ethernet card, so it will be able to communicate with the wireless point.\n\nPlease make sure that you setup security encryption after you have successfully make an initial setup (you can browse the internet) since failure to do that will enable people to use your internet connection for free (and you are paying for the access download etc).\n\nGood Luck :)
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Basically the router is the one distributing the data & the card on your wife's computer will receive the data being transmitted from the router.  In the sense if your computer is off.. it should work... In what ever mode considering that the router is the one throwing out data to both of your computers.
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buy a router\n\nA router (IPA pronunciation: [raʊtɚ] or [rutə(ɚ)]) is a computer networking device that forwards data packets across a network toward their destinations, through a process known as routing. Routing occurs at Layer 3 (the network layer i.e. Internet Protocol (IP)) of the OSI seven-layer protocol stack.\n\nA router acts as a junction between two or more networks to transfer data packets among them. A router is different from a switch. A switch connects devices to form a local area network (LAN).\n\n\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Router
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there are several ways to connect your wireless router. if it has a 4 port switch, it can be connected with a LAN cable (RJ45-RJ45 regular). that cable is what you should have to setup the router (don't do it in no case via a wireless connection).\nthe other way is a connection via a wireless PCI card or a WLAN USB dongle.\n\nPCI Wireless-G Adapter\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833124115\nUSB 2.0 Wireless-G USB Dongle\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833171004\nRJ45 CAT5e Patch Cable\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812106322
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There are different ways of securing your wireless network.  The most common methods are by using WEP or WPA-based authentication and encryption.  However, the steps to add security to your wireless network depends on the wireless router you are using.  Usually, the wireless router manufacturers provide software discs and manuals to do so.  Even if you don't have a manual, browse the software installation CD which might have come with your router, it usually contains a .pdf file for instructions.  If you have misplaced your disc, you can access their website or call the tech support of the wireless router manufacturer for detailed instructions on securing the network.
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if the router has an web interface you can configure it by connecting it via a utp cable to your computer and using youre browser. If it doesn't have one you nhave to configure it from console (usually you connect to the router via a serial port). Read the instructions that come with your router
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Short answer:\n\nA router is an intelligent device that allows a central connection to an internet connection.  Basically connects a LAN to the internet.  It also provides many internet like services from that single connection to the PC's connected to it.\n\nA hub is a dumb networking device that only passes all traffic from one computer to all computers connected.  It does not route the traffic in any way.  It's for local area networks only.\n\nThere is also a switch which does a small amount of traffic control in a local area network.  This helps make connections in the LAN faster with 3 or more computers.
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Almost all wireless routers have a utility screen that allows you to "see" the wireless connections that are present. You can always ping your networks broadcast address to invoke activity from all "listening" devices, and then check the computer arp table to see a list of devices.
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Some laptops have a wireless card, which sends and recieves information to and from computers hooked up to the internet. It's like a miniradio that connects the laptop to the internet.