Hi all!
If you use a router that doesn't implement Windows Connect Now, you can
still use Windows Connect Now to establish and maintain your wireless-network
segment.
When you set up, "define" your network by going through the Windows Smart
Network Wizard that you use for Windows Connect Now, preferring to select
"Automatically assign a network key" so the computer makes a new network key.
At this point, set up an easy-to-remember SSID for your wireless network
"cloud". Select "Set up a network manually" whereupon you end up on the last
page of the Wizard where you have an opportunity to print out the network
details. Here, print off these details then connect your router to your PC
via an Ethernet cable.
Log in to the router using its out-of-box defaults and set up the
access-point details according to what is on the page that you printed off.
Then go to the Admin page on your router's Web page and change the password
to something other than the default password.
To add a WiFi-enabled computer running XP Service Pack 2 or later or a
Windows Connect Now device, run the Windows Smart Network Wizard and select
"Add new computers or devices to the <network ESSID> network" with the
<network ESSID> being replaced by the SSID of your wireless network "cloud".
Select the USB memory key option and use a USB memory key or other removeable
storage medium (flash memory card, etc) that the new computer supports to
transfer the settings to the new computer. If the medium doesn't support
AutoRun, open the Windows-Run dialog box and type
"<removeable-drive-letter>:smrtnky\setupsnk" in this dialog box. Then click
"Run". Here, it will register the details associated with this network
"cloud". Close any "setupsnk" dialog boxes, then remove the medium from the
computer and insert it in your machine and complete the Windows Connect Now
wizard.
In the procedure described above, you have enrolled your Windows Connect
Now-capable device or computer in to your home network in a highly-accurate
manner.
This is because you have avoided transcription errors involved with setting
up your device via any configuration interfaces associated with the computer
or device.
With regards,
Simon Mackay
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