{"id":138,"date":"2005-05-06T14:19:05","date_gmt":"2005-05-06T14:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalmediaphile.com\/2005\/05\/06\/Automatic+Self+Configuring+Secure+Wireless+Home+Networks.aspx"},"modified":"2011-06-09T03:59:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T10:59:12","slug":"automatic-self-configuring-secure-wireless-home-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/2005\/05\/06\/automatic-self-configuring-secure-wireless-home-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic Self Configuring Secure Wireless Home Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"

No longer are self configuring secure wireless home networks<\/font> the stuff of dreams and imagination. The average residential user just can\u2019t cope with the hoops needed to configure a wireless network and secure it. Windows XP\u2019s Wireless Network Setup Wizard and Windows Connect Now, coupled with some of the latest network as well as consumer electronics gear, provide the residential user with a new and bulletproof way to setup a wireless network from scratch.<\/p>\n

But you have to have the \u201cright stuff\u201d from the right vendor. D-Link has done it up right. Check out their DI-624S<\/font><\/strong><\/a> \u2018wireless storage router\u2019. This router can be configured with a USB Flash Drive\/thumb drive\/memory key that was used with the XP Wireless Network Setup Wizard. Even better, when you\u2019re finished with setup, the two USB ports on the router itself provide shared Network Attached Storage for USB hard drives and Flash drives for any computer on the network. <\/p>\n

Even more exciting is the extension of the Windows Connect Now technology to consumer electronics devices such as wireless streaming media players. Check out D-Link\u2019s latest MediaLounge <\/font><\/strong><\/a>(DMS-320RD). Here\u2019s what happened after I plugged a USB Flash Drive with my WCN network settings into the WCN USB port on the back of this device.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019d configured the network with strong WPA-PSK security using a 63 character random passphrase. After OK\u2019ing this with the supplied remote control, the secure wireless connection was made, the device received an IP via DHCP from the router and I was off and running.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m impressed. <\/p>\n

More in my Expert Zone column <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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No longer are self configuring secure wireless home networks the stuff of dreams and imagination. The average residential user just can\u2019t cope with the hoops needed to configure a wireless network and secure it. Windows XP\u2019s Wireless Network Setup Wizard and Windows Connect Now, coupled with some of the latest network as well as consumer electronics gear, provide the residential user with a new and bulletproof way to setup a wireless network from scratch. But you have to have the \u201cright stuff\u201d from the right vendor. D-Link has done it up right. Check out their DI-624S \u2018wireless storage router\u2019. This router can…<\/p>\n","category_list":"Technology<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Barb","url":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/author\/barb\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pvFKI-2e","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}