Firewall Configuration on Home Networks.Setting up a Home Network -Components and Structure.In this tutorial you will learn how you to build and setup a home or small area network and connect it to the Internet. PCs,tablets etc to connect to each other, and also to connect to the internet. The home network or small area network enables multiple devices e.g. Best of luck.Today almost every home and small office has a local network, and an Internet connection. The reason you need to turn Wireless off on the ActionTec is so it won't be fighting over the same airspace with the Wireless n router.Īnyway, this is what a knowledgeable source shared with me, and I intend to try it out over the holidays. (If it's not, it means that somebody, most likely a Verizon installation tech, changed the admin password, and you can set it back to its default value by resetting the ActionTec (little tiny tiny button you press in for 15 seconds.)) Once you're in, find the screen where you can disable the ActionTec wireless function, and turn it off. Type in the admin and password: This should be: admin/password or admin/password1. Again, you will type 192.168.1.1 in your browser. Do not touch anything else on the ActionTec- it still needs to provide a cable signal (via the big coax cable to your Fios box) and Internet signal (via the ethernet cable to your Fios box.) The new n-wireless router will serve as an additional, daisy chain router.įinally, it was recommended to me that you disable the wireless function on the ActionTec. You can do this by simply plugging it in, via an ethernet cable, to one of the four ethernet ports on the ActionTec. Next, you want to connect the new router to your ActionTec. This is nearly always the default IP address for new routers. Find the screen where the IP address is specified, and change it to something else. You may also be able to do this by connecting the new router to your computer using an ethernet cable (NOT to the ActionTec just yet), then accessing the router by typing 192.168.1.1 in your browser. You must change the default IP address on the new router, using the new router's administration software.
Newer laptops (that provide built-in support for 811.n) will not need this. Note that Verizon will not support a different router - if you have any problems you will be on your own.įirst, you want to buy a wireless n router. Depending on the vintage of your laptop, you may also need to buy an access point that matches the wireless n router these look like USB flash drives you plug into your laptop.
I recently received these instructions from a knowledgeable source, and have not yet tried them but intend to in the near future. I have been looking for instructions to set up my own 811.n router, which is supposed to be 5+ times faster than the g router that Verizon users (although to Verizon's credit the n specification is pretty new, although wireless n has been in the market for a couple years, until recently the routers had to use a draft specification the final spec was approved only a few months ago.)
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