TVL COMPUTER SYSTEMS SERVICING – GRADE 12

Name: Date:

Grade: Section:

Semester: 2nd Week: 13 SSLM No. 13 MELC(s): Set router/Wi-fi/wireless

access point/repeater configuration
Objectives:
● Identify the functions of Repeaters, Wireless Access Points; and
● Configure a Wireless Network
Title of Textbook/LM to Study: SLM – TVL CSS 12
Chapter: Pages: Topic: Wireless Network Configuration

Let Us Discover

It’s time for you to widen your networks. Consider this, if your schoolmates in
the adjacent room in your building also created their network of computers and want
to connect to your network, how are you going to do that?
Room 1 Room 2 (adjacent to room 1)

Switch crossover Ethernet cable Switch

We learned that as the demand for our network increases, we need to add
more devices in our network that would satisfy that need.

Just connect your switches using a crossover LAN cable, assuming that they
too have their switch. You will only need to configure your computers’ IP address so
that they would belong to the same workgroup or will have the same gateway.

*File and printer sharing will be discussed in the later modules.

In another scenario, two networks on the same campus need to be

connected but distant. How will you set this up? Is there a need to add one switch
between the buildings? Is there a need for a smaller device to replicate the
signal? Repeaters are needed in this kind of situation.

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 WHAT IS A REPEATER?

A repeater is a network device used to amplify or

regenerate a signal over the same network to extend the
network's range or coverage area.

Building 1 Building 2 (farther from building 1)

Switch Switch

Putting a switch between buildings can still be functional, but repeaters play
a vital role in understanding another device's concept, which we will discuss here.
Therefore, hubs and switches can function as repeaters because they connect other
networks in a network (LAN).

Now let’s connect these networks to the Internet by using a router. Here are
the setup options you can use.

Option 1 Room 1 Room 2 (adjacent to room 1)

Router Switch crossover Ethernet cable Switch

To make your network’s scope wider, connect additional networks by

connecting switches. The length of the cable must not exceed its limit, which is 100
meters.

Option 2 Room 1 Room 2 (adjacent to room 1)

Switch Straight through LAN Route r Straight through LAN Switch

cable cable

You may also connect other switches directly in the router’s Ethernet ports,
but you are limited to only 4 LANs and consider the length of your LAN cables. In
designing a more extensive network, one must consider the geographical locations,
cost, ease of setup, and other factors.

The diagrams shown above are all wired. What if your classmates in the same
room want to connect to your network using their smartphones and tablets, which
do not have Ethernet cabling capability? It is where we need to set up the wireless
LAN.

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 What is a wireless network?

A wireless network by its name alone is a

network of devices that are not connected through a
cable. Devices in a network are connected wirelessly
using radio waves.
Route
A wireless network is possible using a wireless
router. A router connects wired LAN, but it also has the capacity for a wireless LAN.
Most home networks use wireless LAN since most of us now have smartphones,
tablets, and even laptops that are manufactured to be wireless ready. Can you
imagine if gadgets can only have an internet connection using a cable? That would
be very inconvenient, especially if you are in public places. Thanks to wireless
networks, that made our access to the internet so much easier.

Setting up a wireless network

Using the same wiring setup (LAN Cable to the computer and the other end
to any of router’s Ethernet ports, and modem to router’s WAN port) you may or may
not reset your router provided that you still remember your login details and the IP
address that you assigned your router to have. If you didn’t, you better reset your
router and start configuration from scratch.

Besides typing ipconfig from the command prompt, here’s another method of
identifying your router’s initial IP address.

1. Go to Control Panel >

Network and Internet >
Network and Sharing
Center and click on Wi-
Fi connections.

2. Then click details.

Then the details of

your wireless connection
will be displayed.

In this case, the IP

Address of the router is
192.168.1.1, and that’s
what you will type in your
browser to login to the
router menu.

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 Type in 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.1

in the address bar of your

browser to login to the
router menu.

In the wireless tab, input the name of your wireless network in the Wireless
Network Name or the SSID. In this case, the new SSID is assigned to “TheRock.”
Then click the Save button.

In the wireless security tab, you may choose to disable security if you want
everybody who wants to connect to the router to just connect without a password.
However, if you do not want that, you change the wireless password to your desired
password making sure that it is a strong password. Then save.

After setup, you will now be able to see the new name in the available
network for Wi-Fi.

Let Us Try
Congratulations for a job well don

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Directions: Write T if the statement is true and F if it is false.
1. Hubs and switches can function as repeaters.
2. A wireless network is possible using a repeater.
3. Using ipconfig is the only way to check the router’s IP address
4. Disable security if you want everybody to connect to your wireless network.
5. Each time a device connects to the network, an IP address must be
assigned manually in the router.

Write R if what is referred to a function of a Wired Repeater, AP if it is for a Wireless

Access Point and RAP if it is for both.
6. It boosts the signal of the network to make the coverage area wider.
7. It is connected to a router.
8. It is connected to a switch.
9. It allows internet access to wireless devices.
10. It allows internet access to wired devices.

Let Us Do

Directions: Briefly discuss the steps in configuring the Wireless Network. You may
write your answer in another sheet of paper.

Let Us Apply

Directions: Briefly answer the following questions. Provide extra sheet

of paper if necessary.

1. If you have an internet connection at home, where will you put the router
and why?

2. Will you share your Internet connection at home? Why and why not?

Rubrics
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Scoring Rubric

The performance of the learners will be rated based on the following criteria.
Criteria 5 4 3 2 1
Excellent Very Satisfactory Moderately Good
Satisfactory Satisfactory
Content / Thought
Organization
Grammar / Spelling

References

SLM - TVL - Computer Systems Servicing Quarter 2 – Self-Learning Module: Module 3:

Wireless Network Configuration ; Pagalan, et al. pages 5-9

SSLM Development Team

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