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Part III: Installing a Wireless Network
Figure 7-6:
The
Network
and Sharing
Center
showing
the new
wireless
network.
If you’re not sure you want to share anything from your Vista machine,
you can gain a lot more security by choosing Public — you can always
change it to Private later. When the connection is classified as Public,
the Windows firewall is set with its strongest security, and many programs
are restricted from using the connection — all programs to which
you have not specifically granted access to an Internet connection are
blocked from using this network connection. Vista security asks for permission
to do everything, so any virus that’s trying to use the connection
will trigger the security to pop up and alert you.
6. Close the Manage Wireless Networks window.
You return to the Network and Sharing Center.
7. Now that you have added your wireless network to your system, you
can disconnect your Ethernet connection and try out your network.
You can discover and learn a lot more about your new wireless connection by
using the tools in the Network and Sharing Center. In Figure 7-6, we have our
Belkin AP set up as a Private network. From here we can use the View Status
link to see all the details of our connection. Clicking the Details button will
bring up all the information you might need about the speed, the amount of
data that has been passed over the connection, the IP address, and pretty
much everything else you may want to know about your connection. If
you’re having problems with your connection, the View Status pop-up also
has a Diagnose button that can help determine the cause of your connection
problem.