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Network up and running!
May. 6th, 2009 08:43 amHi all,
Remember me saying I was excited about satellite internet? Well, I got my router hooked up last night, and the laptop is up and running! I also secured the network. Hooking up the router turned out to be so easy. It was literally "networking by numbers". When I opened the box, there was no instruction manual but only a CD. Well, I took everything out of the box, put the CD in my computer, and got started. However, the on-screen instructions were actually really easy to follow! They even labeled the Ethernet cable with a big yellow #2. Seriously - networking by numbers. I even secured the network and changed the router admin password. (Which you should DEFINITELY do on any home network).
Then, I went upstairs to set-up the laptop. Now, luckily, I've used the laptop on a public network once before (at Howard Johnson's in Tallahassee) - so I knew where the controls were. Once I remembered that I had stuck a one on the password, everything worked beautifully!
Two down and one more to go (the Gateway, which is also downstairs).
--Olivia
Remember me saying I was excited about satellite internet? Well, I got my router hooked up last night, and the laptop is up and running! I also secured the network. Hooking up the router turned out to be so easy. It was literally "networking by numbers". When I opened the box, there was no instruction manual but only a CD. Well, I took everything out of the box, put the CD in my computer, and got started. However, the on-screen instructions were actually really easy to follow! They even labeled the Ethernet cable with a big yellow #2. Seriously - networking by numbers. I even secured the network and changed the router admin password. (Which you should DEFINITELY do on any home network).
Then, I went upstairs to set-up the laptop. Now, luckily, I've used the laptop on a public network once before (at Howard Johnson's in Tallahassee) - so I knew where the controls were. Once I remembered that I had stuck a one on the password, everything worked beautifully!
Two down and one more to go (the Gateway, which is also downstairs).
--Olivia
