How to install a router - step by step guide

If you decide to install wi-fi in your home, onwork, or in some other place, then you definitely need to purchase a special device called a router or a router. This is a special device that distributes wireless Internet at a certain distance. The routers are classified by capacity, number of objects to be connected, speed, range, etc. Therefore, if you want to purchase a router, then be sure to familiarize yourself with its characteristics. By purchasing this device, you need to install it. I'm sure that 99% of users will have problems with this, so this article is devoted to how to install a router.

How to install the router - step by step guide

There are a lot of routers from different manufacturers, but the most popular companies are D-Link. That's why we will understand how to install a wi-fi D-Link router.

1) Open the box with the purchased device,pull it out and connect it to the mains. From the front side should light bulbs. If they do not light up, then the router has some problems. On the back side we see several ports. We need a port with the word "internet", we need to insert a plug into it, which was connected to the computer.

2) In any of the other ports, we put the cable that was bundled with the router. This cable needs to be connected to the computer (to the place from where we pulled the Internet wire).

3) Open any program that gives accessin Internet. In the address bar we write the following numbers: 192.168.0.1. This page is the main settings page. You do not need an internet connection to connect to it.

4) We continue to understand how to install a router. We have an authorization page with name and password fields. In the field we write admin, and leave the password field empty.

5) On the opened page select the item SetupThen click Internet Setup on the left and then click Manual Internet Connection Setup.

6) In the opened Internet Connection Type section(Internet Connection Type) select the item called PPPoE user name / password and select Dynamic PPPoE. In the fields Name, Password and Confirm Password, enter the information that is specified in the contract with your ISP.

7) Look a little lower and see the point"clone the mac address." Click on it. In the Connect mode select section, set the point opposite Always. The remaining items need not be changed.

8) Discussion on how to install wifirouter, almost completed. It remains only to understand the settings of the wireless network. In the device menu on the left, select Wireless installation, then the Manual wireless connection setting button appears, click on it and look at the main settings menu that opens. In the Wireless network settings section, check the Enable wireless network check box, and in the Wireless network name field write any name. Also, fill in the Wireless Network Key field and remember it. This field will store the password from your wi-fi. It is necessary to ensure that neighbors and other unfamiliar people are not connected to the router.

I hope that after reading this article, you figured out how to install a router.

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