How do i network a deskiop and laptop through wireless broadband internet connection?
You’ll need a wireless access point, which you plug into a switch. You can plug the desktop by wire into the switch, or install a wireless card. Plug the broadband internet into the switch. Configure the wireless access point with an SSID, a channel, and WPKA. Your broadband internet is assigning addresses to the laptop and computer? If not, you will need a Wireless router and not a Wireless Access point. Make sure the Wireless router is set to hand out addresses on a different network than the broadband. For example, your wireless network is handing out 192.168.1.x addresses, your broadband should be something like 192.168.3.x (the third number changes). On the wireless network card on the laptop or the computer, either allow Windows to handle the configuration or use the manufacturer’s utility. The SSID should automatically appear, select WPK and input the pass phrase you assigned earlier to the access point or the wireless router.
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Network Manager Solution? content caching, filtering, bandwidth monitoring and control?
Network Manager Solution? content caching, filtering, bandwidth monitoring and control
So I am in IRAQ and am about to purchase a Satilite for internet for my Soldiers to use. One of the companies offers a box called a net manager. but it is priced per user and is really expensive (subscription based).
I am looking for solution that is 1) free, or 2) is a whole product that you buy once, and don’t have to continue paying for it.
here are the features the device does, and I would like to have
*Bandwidth Management
–create user accounts to access the internet
–limit bandwidth based on user
–monitor traffic consumption
–schedule allocations of bandwidth
*Hardware Firewall
*Intrusion Detections
*Content Filter
*Anti-Spam
*Anti-Virus
*Traffic Reporting
*HTTP Cache
please give me any information on a product that can do the above or at least some of the above.
Your list of wants puts you into higher end (and more expensive) commercial equipment. Sonicwall, Checkpoint or Watchguard maybe. But most of these will want annual fees for many of the services.
If you wanted to get creative you could build your own linux appliance ( http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/webmaster/article.php/3609271 ) with all of those features and more, or you could consider setting yourself up as a hotspot ( http://antamediahotspot.com or http://www.publicip.net ).
It may be amazing to current computer users who are used to small compact LCD monitors. Not only were initial computer monitors large and cumbersome but that the early monitors used by computer enthusiasts were Cathode Ray Monitors that were not color,
Initial vintage monitors were monochrome – one color only not the brilliant color displays that we take for granted today.
Some of these monochrome monitors were green or orange iridescent. Others were similar to a black and white television that is grey scale.
It is taken for granted now by young computer surfers and gamers that television was always “color”, not so.
Initially TV broadcasts were in “black and white “.
Color TV had been developed but the technology but the widespread use did not arise till the early 1970’s and even later in some areas.
The broadcasts were seen as black and white on those sets and color on color sets.
Color TVs could receive programs that were in the black and white mode as well. Sort of the backwards compatibility of the day.
What then would be the difference between the picture qualities of a television set a monitor has vastly greater resolution than standard TV sets.
The TV sets of that time (as opposed to current high end LCD and plasma high definition TVs) were basically 1950’s technology – even the newer color TV sets. .
A monitor’s screen display should be stable and of good quality, since the computer user may sit very close to the monitor and spend many hours reading the display.
If the images are fuzzy (low resolution) or waver constantly, you would have a throbbing headache and wavering eyes in no time.
Monitors have knobs to adjust for clarity. On vintage monochrome monitors these usually include a brightness knob which adjusts the illumination of the entire screen, and a contrast knob which makes the letters lighter or darker in relation to the background screen newer color monitors will have additional adjustments for color.
The question will arise – how did the vintage CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) monitors initially handle the color technology which came later and became the accepted standard.
A typical color monitor screen worked in much the same way as a standard CRT television.
The inside of the picture tube is coated with three different phosphors: red, green and blue.
Phosphors are special chemical compounds that glow with characteristic colors when bombarded a stream of electrons.
The phosphor gets “excited” and thanks to the additive properties of the color wheel the different colored lights resulting get mixed and that all types of combinations of the three primary colors result.
The end result is that virtually any color of the rainbow can be produced.
And as for the color white the eyes play a useful trick. When all three colors are mixed together in equal quantities, the eye sees this as “white light”.
Finally the sharpness of the CRT color monitor or a TV set’s image is determined by three factors: the monitor’s bandwidth, its dot pitch, and the accuracy of its convergence.
Although the bandwidth and dot pitch are important to determine a good monitor, convergence is the real measurement.
Indeed we have come a long way from the initial simple vintage monochrome monitors. What we now take for granted with LCD monitors and indeed our high definition TV sets all originated with simple CRT monochrome monitor technology which was merged with the technology and tricks gleaned from the color TV industry.
We should all be grateful. We owe much to “Uncle Miltie”.
How do I block other people accessing my wireless network?
I have just been connected to BT wireless broadband. I thought bt would provide me with a name and password but no. When i turn on the computer, i get easy access to the wireless whithout any security pass.
Idon’t want people to use it because i was not able to use others’ and anytime i wanted to i would be asked a password.
How do i do that with mine?
It varies with your wireless routers.
I use WEP encryption so that people cannot look at my data. WEP means Wired Equivilant Protection, which they say is as safe has not having a wireless network.
I also set my wireless router so that it only lets my adapters with my MAC addresses access the network. That way no machine that I do not authorize can access it.
I also reduce the number of IP addresses that my router will allow to only the number needed on my network. That makes it harder for them to get on my network.
There are ways hackers can get around any security system, so having three systems makes it more secure in my opinion.
how do i limit someones bandwidth who is on my home network?
i have a Wireless router Linksys WRT54G v6. There is someone on my network who hogs all the bandwidth and i want to limit there usage. i tried looking for simple solutions but everything seems so complicated. I tried adding a third party firmware to my router but i broke it and spent hours trying to fix it. I have full access to their computer and i was wondering if there was a way to put something in there computer to limit internet access. I was wondering if there was some kind of program that i can Control bandwidth or if there was something i can install on her computer so they cannot use too much bandwidth.
thanks
Ehh, a WRT54Gv6 IIRC can only use a micro version of third party firmware. DD-WRT I believe is the only one available for it. OpenWRT may be possible, but it would likely need to be a custom build.
I can’t remember off the top of my head if QOS is an available option on the stripped down version of DD-WRT or not.
I am not aware of any software for a client machine that will allow bandwidth to be limited, though there may be something out there. If there is it would have to be something that the user could not access and disable. The other issue is that local network speed/available bandwidth is not the same as internet connection available bandwidth, so if it is possible to limit the traffic in such a way it will affect local network traffic as well.
QOS at a router is really the way to handle it though. Besides the option of replacing the router with one that has QOS features or running a third party firmware, you could take an old machine – throw a basic firewall distro of linux on it throw it between the hardware router and the rest of the network (basically adding another router to the network) and setup qos on it. This would also have the added benefit of being able to act as a proxy cache server (taking some of the load off the internet connection) as well.
