Wireless Home Networking - Index of

In This Chapter
Chapter 7
Setting Up a Wireless
Windows Network
� Installing wireless network interface adapters
� Modifying your adapter’s settings
� Connecting with ease by using Windows XP’s Wireless Zero Configuration
� Setting up your network with Windows Vista
� Keeping track of your network’s performance
In this chapter, we describe the installation and configuration of wireless
devices on Windows computers. To that end, we explain how to set up and
configure the wireless network interface adapter in each of your computers
(and other wireless devices) so that they can communicate with the access
point (AP) and with one another. We also include special coverage for
installing and configuring wireless network adapters in computers running
Windows XP and Vista (it’s amazingly easy) and in handheld computers running
one of the Microsoft mobile operating systems.
Read through Chapter 6 for information about physically installing APs, and
see Chapter 8 for a discussion of setting up a Mac-based wireless network. If
you find yourself lost in acronyms, check out Chapter 2 for the background
on this equipment.
Setting Up Wireless Network
Interface Adapters
After you have the AP successfully installed and configured (see Chapter 6),
you’re ready to install and set up a wireless network interface adapter in each
client device. Wireless network adapters all require the same information