Specifications
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6. Create a Private WIFI network with your Wireless Router
Most of our customers purchase a simple wireless router and simply connect it to power. They do NOT con-
nect it to the internet or to their company network.
Run the conguration program that comes with the wireless router (most of them have a web browser based
interface) and set up the name (SSID) of the wireless LAN, and set the security method that you prefer to
use (WEP, WPA...) and the password.
These settings are completely up to you, according to your company’s requirements.
In our example, we will set the SSID to DEWE-INSTRUMENTS and set up WEP security and a
password. We set the base IP address of the wireless router to 192.168.1.1 with a subnet mask of
255.255.255.0.
By not connecting the router to the company network or the internet, only a local computer with WIFI can
access it. This is what we want in our example: to create a local private network.
Notice that the IP address is routable from our DEWE computer, which was set to 192.168.1.100 (the last
three digits might be different according to your conguration).
Just be sure NOT to use the same last three digits on your router that you have used on the DEWE
computers! It must be unique.