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These instructions cover setting up and configuring a private local wi-fi network.
 
These instructions cover setting up and configuring a private local wi-fi network.
   
== The router ===
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== The router ==
   
 
These instructions cover setting up a Linksys WRT310N Wireless-N Gigabit Router. Setting up other Linksys wi-fi routers should be very similar. Foe other brands of routers, the set up should be similar.
 
These instructions cover setting up a Linksys WRT310N Wireless-N Gigabit Router. Setting up other Linksys wi-fi routers should be very similar. Foe other brands of routers, the set up should be similar.
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192.168.0.1 is the default IP address usually used by D-Link and Netgear models and 192.168.2.1 is the default IP address for SMC and Belkin brands. These IP addresses can be changed but if you have a router with a default IP address different than 198.168.1.1, it is probably best to keep the default and to adjust the IP addresses in these instructions accordingly.
 
192.168.0.1 is the default IP address usually used by D-Link and Netgear models and 192.168.2.1 is the default IP address for SMC and Belkin brands. These IP addresses can be changed but if you have a router with a default IP address different than 198.168.1.1, it is probably best to keep the default and to adjust the IP addresses in these instructions accordingly.
 
   
 
== Configure the router ==
 
== Configure the router ==

Revision as of 17:01, 7 July 2010

These instructions cover setting up and configuring a private local wi-fi network.

The router

These instructions cover setting up a Linksys WRT310N Wireless-N Gigabit Router. Setting up other Linksys wi-fi routers should be very similar. Foe other brands of routers, the set up should be similar.

198.168.1.1 is the default IP address used by Linksys routers. We will use 198.168.1.100 for the IP address of the WeBWorK laptop server (maybe running off a flash memory drive).

192.168.0.1 is the default IP address usually used by D-Link and Netgear models and 192.168.2.1 is the default IP address for SMC and Belkin brands. These IP addresses can be changed but if you have a router with a default IP address different than 198.168.1.1, it is probably best to keep the default and to adjust the IP addresses in these instructions accordingly.

Configure the router

We have a Linksys WRT310N Wireless-N Gigabit Router available for loan to be used when presenting a WeBWorK Demo Workshop. This router was set up