How can I configure the router at home?

Recommendations on how to connect and configure the router

With the growing number of mobile devices thatequipped with Wi-Fi modules, and increased the popularity of routers. If before the presence of wireless connection in a cafe or conference halls was considered a luxury, now it is available almost everywhere, including in the apartment. Traditionally, it is believed that setting up the router is quite a complicated task and it should be handled by a specialist, however, this is far from being the case.

All that you need in order toconfigure at home a wireless connection point, this is actually a router, laptop or PC, a network cable with a patch cord, any device capable of receiving a Wi-Fi signal, and the main cable from the provider.

How to connect a WiFi router at home

So, the first thing you need to do is connectthe router itself to the power network, and also to connect to the WAN port (usually it is marked with a different color or signed) on the router by the network cable of your provider. In the next step, we connect the router and your PC through a patch cord, which should be included, if there is not one, then it can be easily purchased at any computer store.

How to connect a Megafon or Asus routerthey do not differ much in anything, since the algorithm of actions is practically identical everywhere. Now let's analyze the next step - how to connect the network through the router. We physically connected two devices - a PC and a router. Now you need to configure the network card of your computer.

As a rule, the instructions to the router indicateits IP address, for example, 192.168.0.1 or something similar. If you could not find this information in the instructions, go to "Network Connections", select "Local Area Connection" and right click on its shortcut - in the drop-down menu, click "Status".

In the appeared window it is necessary to press the button"Details" for more detailed information. Among the set of presented data, we are only interested in one line - the Basic Gateway - this is the address of the router. In the next step, enter the IP address in the browser's address bar to get into the administrative panel of the router for further configuration. However, before you configure the connection to the router, you must prepare for this our PC.

Again, click on the label "Connect tolocal network "right click, now select the" Properties "item. In the window that appears, you should select the Internet Protocol TCP / IP line and again click on the properties. Further, if in the appeared window you have settings for access to the Internet from your provider, they should be copied to the list. Next, check the "Obtain IP automatically" and "Obtain DNS automatically" checkboxes.

How to configure the router yourself

Now the most difficult stage is the adjustment of thedevice. First, go to the WAN tab in the admin panel of the router. In the event that all the Internet connection settings on your PC were "Default" (that is, IP was assigned automatically), then simply select the value of DHCP in the "Type conection" box. Otherwise, you should register the IP address and DNS server, just as it was previously on the computer.

Well, now our router should be connectedto the Internet, it remains to configure it so that it distributes WiFi. To do this, go to the Wireless tab, mark the point Enabled, and in the SSID window write the name of the network. Next, select the protocol and the data channel number (you can leave it automatic). After all these actions go to the Security tab, select the WPA2 data encryption method in the window and set the password for accessing the network.

Most often these actions are enough and you have alreadyYou can try to access the Internet from a computer or via a mobile device with a WiFi module. However, sometimes it may be necessary to additionally prescribe the connection parameters to the router for the PC. In this case, again open the TCP / IP properties, put a check mark next to "Use the following IP address" (DNS).

Now we write the following parameters: