You ever been fed up with the speed and performance or even the security of your
router / modem that's very limited in its abilities and maybe you wanted to
put in something a little bit more powerful for your wireless or a little
bit more secure as a router and being able to handle a lot more bandwidth.
This is one of a few videos where we're gonna be putting out in a series based on a
book that I wrote, quite some time ago, and it's a little bit of an in-between
guide between a dummy's guide and a technical manual. So you'll be getting
the information that you need, but not broken down like a dummy step by step
for how to do one particular thing, but not a complex manual set of instructions
either. It's going to be a nice overall how to. Things such as learning what you
need to know as the cover implies, when you want to buy something. So you don't
get something that's not enough or overkill. How to fix certain things
yourself or even asking an expert. I've had clients come to me saying I need
more memory but what they really meant to say is I need a bigger hard drive
because they're out a storage space. So in this video we're gonna be showing you
how to set up your own router or a wireless access point. Coming right up!
So in a typical Network what you would have is your modem / router and it
could be any one of these things like a bell DSL connection or Rogers coax cable
connection and that's for us here in Canada anyway. But you may have some
others like in the states I believe AT&T is one of the popular ones or you may
have a series of other options available in your country. Depending where you're
listening from. Let me know in the comments below, where you guys are from?
Anyway the IP address that would be associated with these modems maybe
192.168.0.1 or it could be 1.1 is fairly typical. So then it would
assign the computer an IP address similar to that where the ending would
start at 100 or 101 and so on. If it's wireless such as your laptop then it
would be pumping out the signal wirelessly. But the cable if for any
computers that are connected by a cable, it would go from that modem router
directly into the computer. So let's take the computer out of the picture now and
look at the process of setting up the new router or wireless access point.
So on your existing modem router of course you've got power, your internet still
comes in to the WAN port whether it's a phone line, DSL, or a coax cable; but the
computer, instead of the line from the PC port to the computer, it's actually going
to be going into the WAN port on your new router. Then your router then
connects to the computer from one of the numbered ports and it doesn't matter
which number it is. Then that computer will now get an IP address from
that router instead of from the modem / router from your internet provider.
Now, to avoid any further slowdowns because
you've got a router plugged into a router now, even though we have it
plugged into the WAN port, so we're using your old router modem as just a
modem but it still has the router capability slowing it down. So if you
contact your internet provider, you ask them to change the modem
from router to bridge mode. They'll do that over the phone for you remotely and
then you'll get a different IP address for that. That's it for this video. If you
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