How To Connect A Laptop To A Wireless Network

How To Connect A Laptop To A Wireless Network: Connecting your wireless device to a wireless network is very easy. In fact, the wireless connectivity aspect is so important to wireless devices that it’s been that device makers minimize your role in connecting to a network. For more devices, connecting to the Internet isn’t much different from how you do it with your personal computer.

Here’s how you connect your wireless device to a network:

1. Turn on wireless networking if it’s not already enabled. This step is different for each device. Some devices may require you to call up a connectivity-related settings page or perform some sort of key manipulation to turn on your wireless connection. Alternatively, you can also use Start Settings Connections Wi-Fi and select the check box to enable wireless connectivity.
2. Select an available hotspot that is detected by your wireless device and validate it.
3. Select Internet Explorer or any other Web browser of your choice that is supported and available on your wireless device.
4. Browse to a Web page to confirm your wireless connection is working. That’s all there is to it.

When traveling, your mobile device can connect to a Wi-Fi network as easily as Windows Vista can since Windows Mobile and Vista share similar zero configuration technology. This makes it simple for them to detect and connect to nearby Wi-Fi Networks.

This saves you the hassle of configuring your device every time you’re in range of a wireless network. Of course, as with Windows Vista, once you connect to a wireless network with your wireless device, most devices will remember the security key (WEP/WPA) so that you can quickly recall a frequently used network. If you connect to a new network, you’ll still need to know the security key to connect the first time.