Windows 8 In Depth

Installing a Wireless Network

If you are using a wireless router, you need to configure wireless security and networking options after installing your network adapters. You need to do this even if you are just using it for its wired Ethernet connections, and don’t plan on using its wireless capability.

You really do have to worry about wireless network security. In my home, I can pick up signals from four separate wireless networks: mine, the house next door’s, and two others (I can’t tell whose they are). It’s not uncommon to find that you can receive signals from several neighbors. And people do actually drive around with laptops in their car, looking for free Internet access. To protect against both freeloaders and hackers, one or two protection ...