Need help with wireless connection

espresso

Kirsty262 wrote:

what!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Although you may now have your wireless network connection working it will be insecure by default. You need to log into the router and change these things to make it so that nobody else can make use of your broadband connection, as it is an open network without encryption. Surely you got a user guide with it to tell you how to do this? Is it on a CD?

Kirsty262

espresso wrote:

Although you may now have your wireless network connection working it will be insecure by default. You need to log into the router and change these things to make it so that nobody else can make use of your broadband connection, as it is an open network without encryption. Surely you got a user guide with it to tell you how to do this? Is it on a CD?

haven't seen one

Kirsty262

how do i transfer things from my computer to the laptop please?

albertross_2

What things?

You can do it with File and print sharing, but I'd make sure your network is encrypted first, otherwise you may be sharing your files and emails with the neighbours

This thread covers both of those issues, but you'll have to dog a bit.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=121274

CD, usb key, dvd.

These are the sort of things you need to do to encrypt, but the intructions are for a netgear, belkin will be similar, but the ip address is different 192.168.2.1 ?

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=1460703&postcount=2

Chippy_Minton

Kirsty262 wrote:

thanks everyone now sorted with the wireless, one more question, I can get my laptop to receive the emails etc I get on the pc?

See, that wasn't too difficult was it? :T

Yes, you can set up your laptop to have the same emails as your PC, but only if you use a program which synchronises emails between the two, or you configure your email program (is it Outlook Express?) on both computers and follow certain steps when you send email. See Synchronize Outlook Express between two computers.

Either technique is necessary because of the default OE behaviour. When you start up OE on your PC it connects to your email server and sends emails from the PC's Outbox and receives emails into its Inbox and deletes them from the email server. If you then do the same on your laptop there won't be any emails to receive because they've already been deleted off the server.

Chippy_Minton

Kirsty, you should definitely set up wireless security (encryption) on your router.

Sharing files between the two is easy. Just run the Network Setup Wizard on both computers and select the File and Printer Sharing option. That creates a special folder called 'Shared Documents' in My Computer and either computer can read files from the other computer's shared documents folder. You can also explicitly share other folders, but running the wizard is the first step in any case.

Kirsty262

Chippy_Minton wrote:

See, that wasn't too difficult was it? :T

Yes, you can set up your laptop to have the same emails as your PC, but only if you use a program which synchronises emails between the two, or you configure your email program (is it Outlook Express?) on both computers and follow certain steps when you send email. See Synchronize Outlook Express between two computers.

Either technique is necessary because of the default OE behaviour. When you start up OE on your PC it connects to your email server and sends emails from the PC's Outbox and receives emails into its Inbox and deletes them from the email server. If you then do the same on your laptop there won't be any emails to receive because they've already been deleted off the server.

I use Incredimail