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Click Next.
The Edit Configuration dialog box appears.
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In the Identify your network area, enter your network name in the Network Name text box and
choose a channel you want to use for wireless communications in the Channel Number drop-down list.
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Click Next.
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If you want to set up an encryption key so only those who know the key can access the network, then
select the Enable Data Security check box in the Set Security area, select either alphanumeric
characters or hexadecimal (depending on your encryption key), and type a five digit key.
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Click Next.
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In the TCP/IP Behavior area, select the Renew IP Address when selecting this profile check box.
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Click Finish.
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Click OK in the Add/Edit Configuration Profile dialog box.
Your computer is ready to communicate with another computer.
If you want to communicate between two or more computers, you need to configure all these computers in exactly the same way.
This means that you need to enter the same Network name and the same Network key on all computers as on the first computer you configure.
In France and in the Netherlands, only a few channels can be used:
- France: only channels 10, 11 (indoor as well as outdoor).
- the Netherlands: channels 9, 10, 11 (only outdoor). Indoor all channels can be used.
This means that you need to change channels if you are in one of these countries.
In a peer-to-peer group, each computer will automatically adopt the channel of the workgroup. If your computer is the first station to start the
workgroup, it will use the channel selected in the active profile.
Select peer-to-peer on all computers to establish the wireless LAN network.
The network key is data used to protect signals passing through a wireless LAN. It is also called an encryption key.
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