How to connect your laptop to the classroom wireless AP

How to connect your laptopto the classroom wireless AP

1. Right click on the wireless icon, choose view Available Wireless Networks.

2. If you cannot find any wireless networks like this, that means Windows XP is not managing the wireless connections. You will need to turn that on.(in slide-5)3. Click on Change Advanced settings

4. Click on Wireless Networks tab

5. Click to check on this checkbox6. Click View Wireless Networks.

7. Now you should see some wireless networks. Choose the one that you know, with the strongest signal strength. Click on it.7a. Click Connect

8. It will ask for your network key string. Find it on your wireless AP and type it in here.

9. Now it should be trying to connect

10. When it successfully connected, you should see this.11. This wireless icon looks good now.

12. [optional:] Place you cursor at the wireless icon and you should see this message.13. [optional:] To ensure network connectivity, click on Start, choose Run, then type in cmd, click OK to start the Command Prompt window, which looks like above.14. [optional:] Ping google.com to test the connectivity15. [optional:] enter ipconfig /all to examine your network settings

16. If it still does not work, right click on the wireless icon and choose Repair, it will turn off radio and turn it back on to try to repair it.

17. If wireless connection is OK, but you cannot load a webpage like google.com, please make sure you have a valid DNS server IP address here. If not, check the APs config by following a separate tutor slides.

19. choose properties.18. If it still doesnt work, check on the wireless AP settings like key and security suite. Open Control Panel, choose Network Connections. Right click on Wireless Network Connection.

20. Choose a wireless APs profile you want to examine or change, then click Properties button

21. Choose WPA-PSK and AES, type in the correct AP network key, which can be found on top of your AP router.22. Click OK23. Click OKImportant!

24. Right click and choose Properties25. Click on Refresh network list26. Click on the AP you know, with the strongest signal, click Connect. Repeat step-7 at slide-6.

27. Now it should be trying to connect

28. Once connected, you should be able to ping google.comWireless icon looks OK

Sometimes you may need to use ThinkVantage client to manage your wireless connection. Click on Start button and choose the ThinkVantage program. Notice that the AP profiles you set up here is in parallel to those profiles used by Windows XP, and the settings needs to match with each other.1. Click on Find to search for existing APs

2. Here you find a list of APs and their signal strength in relative positions. Click on the one with highest signal, then click the Connect button at below.3. If connection failed, click on Manage to examine or change AP profile settings

4. Enter the APs name5. Then click on Wireless Settings tab

6. Choose WPA-PSK7. Click on PropertiesImportant!

Important!8. Choose WPA-PSK and AES9. Type in the AP network key, which can be found on the AP10. Click OK

7. Click on Settings

8. Leave everything blank as defaults9. Click on OK

10. Click on Connect button, it should start the connect process.Once successfully connected, it should look like this.

You may want to do a network speed test, to verify your network connection download and upload speeds. Go to http://speakeasy.net/speedtestClick on San Francisco

It will tell you the network speeds as test result. Enjoy!