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independent of your technical skills. The more advanced and familiar you
are with networking terminology, the more you will act intuitively. A beginner
will need more support in learning about his new networking equipment.
Some chapters are therefore supplemented with additional information,
designed for Beginners:
2. Define your network topology
Decide which PC and devices will be connected to your Network
PC
Laptop
PDA
Printer with parallel Port
Network Scanner
Network Printer
…
Chapter 2 ‘Hardware Installation’ will help you to connect these devices
properly.
3. Prepare your PCs and Devices to connect to the Router
Before an Router can be configured, an initial connection must be
established.
Chapter 3 ‘Network Settings’ will guide you through the settings.
4. Install and configure the Router
Your Router needs to be configured to work properly with each of your
networking components and your Internet connection. Security aspects and
special Router functionalities will also be covered.
see Chapter 5 ‘Router Configuration’.
5. Install additional features like Print Server
The Router is equipped with a Printer port which is wirelessly accessible by
any user in the network. Therefore a software needs to be installed on every
PC.
see Chapter 4.2 for the Software Installation and Chapter 6 for the Software