Introduction to three ways and settings for routers connecting to computers

How does a router connect to a computer to set it up? At present, with the popularization of computer, smartphone, tablet computer and other network equipment, people's demand for the network is increasing, so it has promoted the wide use of routers. Many users, however, do not know how to connect the router to the computer and then configure them later.

There are two ways to connect a router to a computer, one is a wired connection, and the other is to connect wirelessly. Regardless of the way you connect, you must configure your computer's IP address to be automatically available.

　　Step one: Set the IP address

Whether wired or wireless to connect the router and computer, you need to set the IP address in the computer, set to automatically get it, so that the computer can access the Internet through the router. Manual settings can also be made, but the normal user settings are prone to error, so it is recommended that you automatically obtain the IP address and DNS address from the router's DHCP server by using the automatic acquisition method.

　　Step Two: Wired connection

Wired connections are generally appropriate for the first time you set up your router, or when your desktop computer is online. The average home router has 5 cable connectors on it, these 5 network cable interfaces are divided into 2 categories, one is the WAN port (some brands of routers are also called the Internet port), the other is only a WAN port, the other is a LAN port, LAN interface has 4, and some routers have 1, 2, 3, 4 number.

When connecting routers and computers with a network cable, the router end can only view the LAN port above, any of the 4 LAN can be, do not plug in the WAN port above, all in the computer and routers can not communicate between the Internet, through the router is more impossible.

　　Step Three: Wireless connection

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Wireless connection is in the same way that the wireless network (Wi-Fi) is already turned on on the radio router and the user knows the SSID (name) and password for the wireless network. method is very cheap, click on the lower right corner of the notebook computer wireless connection, and then find your router wireless network name, click on the connection, in the pop-up dialog box to enter the password can be connected successfully.