Here's the basic steps to configuring your wireless router for security...
- Turn off wireless on your laptop - some have a button or you can "disable" it in network connections.
- Connect your computer to the router using an ethernet cable.
- Check you can get onto the internet.
- Login to the wireless router - usually at http://192.168.0.1/
- You'll need a username and password here - probably "admin" & "admin" or "admin" and "password".
- Find the wireless security settings on the web site you should be seeing.
- Set it to WPA2 Personal (or WPA2-PSK or WPA-PSK or WPA2/WPA, etc...)
- Type in your chosen pass-phrase.
- Hit the "Save" or "Apply" button.
- The router should be set up now, you can close the web browser.
- Unplug the ethernet cable, and turn back on the wireless.
- Configure wireless on your laptop to match how you configured the router.
- Check for internet connection.
- Done!
If anything goes wrong, come back here and let us know what happened.
Good luck!
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