Connect your Wii to a secure wireless network

Wii connected to an unsecured wireless network found very easy. Then if you try to connect to a secured wireless network that would be difficult sometimes. This article will show you what should you do to connect Wii to a secured router.

Instructions

1. Turn on your Wii, click the icon that looks like a house (home) on your Wii remote. Go to the settings icon and select network, select wireless and attempt to configure wireless connection #1. This is what I did first and couldn't seem to find my network. No matter what I changed nothing made it work.
2. Looking back at the menus, I came across another that gave the option of making a new wireless connection, hmmmm try it and see. I clicked the button for the "New Connection #2" and whoopeee it saw my network router, which should have a unique name so you can identify it from the other routers transmitting in your neighborhood.
3. Next it asked me for my SSID key which I typed in and hit "save" then I selected "test connection". This time it worked! If you have a DHCP server on your router then you probably won't have to change anything else. If you info about your ISP but don't know such as your default gateway or DNS servers. Go to the Commend Prompt and type "ipconfig/all" and hit enter. This will give you all the details about your network.

MAC Address of a Network Card

How to Check MAC Address of Network Card in Microsoft Windows?

MAC (Media Access Control) address is the unique hardware address that is bind to your network card by its manufacturer. It’s also called physical address. This address is commonly written as a sequence of 12 hexadecimal digits, such as 0C-0B-CD-34-54-A0. Valid hexadecimal characters are "0" to "9" and "A" to "F".

1) Go to Start and click Run.

2) Run window will appear. Type cmd and click OK.

3) Command prompt window will appear. Type ipconfig /all. You can see the physical address of this network card is 00-0B-CD-34-74-A0. The card manufacturer shown is National Semiconductor Corporation.

Note: DHCP and DNS servers’ information will also be displayed by using this command.

Simple File Sharing in Windows XP

Simple File Sharing in Windows XP

You can do folder and file sharing in your home network, so that they can be read or written by other users. However it's not advisable to share your folder with write permission, unless it's really needed.

There is user who prefers to share the drive (C:, D:, E:, etc) in the network, but it’s not recommended. Sharing drive is dangerous, if your computer is not patched, configured and secured properly, your computer will be attacked by virus/trojan easily by sharing the drive.

So, the best way is, only share the folder which you need to share. Only assign write permission to folder if really needed.

Enable or Disable Network Connection - Windows XP

Windows XP provides you a feature to enable or disable network connection. This is especially useful for you to disconnect your network connection without physically unplug network cable from network card. In wireless network, this disable feature will disconnect you from wireless network till you re-enable it again.

Disabling unused network connection will also improve your computer security. This is especially important if your Windows system is not updated frequently and have no firewall or anti virus software installed.

1) Go to Start and click on Control Panel.

2) Control Panel window will appear. Double click on Network Connections.

3) Network Connections window will appear. Right click correct Local Area Connection by identifying the network card and type. If the connection is currently enabled, the first option in this menu will be Disable. Otherwise, the option will be Enable. Click on the Enable/Disable option to enable/disable your network connection.

How to Connect to Wireless Network in Windows XP

How to Connect to Wireless Network in Windows XP?

Here is simple way to connect to wireless network in Windows XP using its built-in wireless zero configuration tool:

Simple Way to Monitor Network Connection in Windows XP

Simple Way to Monitor Network Connection in Windows XP

You might want to monitor network connection after setting it up in Windows XP. This XP monitoring feature is useful to check your network speed, sent and received traffic information. You can also check network card IP information by using this feature.

Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Virtual Private Network (VPN) is the technology that you can use to access the office or home network remotely and securely over the Internet, so that the data is protected from sniffing or hijacking by hackers.