Now, to upgrade from a wired up home gateway to wireless solution is only a few more steps!
This section is assuming you have reviewed the Setup portion of home networking and are now ready to make the last few adjustments to go wireless! Please review the Setup instructions FIRST if have not already.
All current Wireless Home Gateways require a Channel and SSID to be setup, assuming you are going to encrypt your signal, which I know you will of course! For these particular settings, the Wireless channel can be left to auto since no other wireless networks are defined in this range. The SSID is going to be the name of your network - you can call it anything you like. Just remember your neighbors will see this name when they go to setup their wireless home connection. Neighbors can "View all newtorks in range', so don't name it anything sensitive! However, on the setting below, the option to Broadcast SSID can be deselected and this generally will prevent your neighbors wireless network card from seeing your network or network name. The next setting, Wireless Mode, defines what type of wireless traffic the gateway will communicate with. Wireless traffic comes in just a few flavors - 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n . I won't bore you with the technical details so here is quick and to the point. These protocols are generally referred to by the last letter for short - see below where 'g and b' are selected for Wireless Mode. B is older and slower than g, and g is older and slower than n - costs for the devices that support b, g, and n are obviously higher than a device that just supports b, or even b and g together. The last setting pertaining to QOS, unless you know you are using 802.11e QOS or not, just leave that setting Off or Inactive. Welcome to wireless networking!
