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1. Find your laptop or desktop computer and make sure you are wireless ready. This means an integrated wireless adapter for laptops or a wireless adapter like the Linksys WMP54G Wireless-G PCI Adapter for desktop computers.
2. Get you some high speed internets (DSL, cable, satellite, etc.).
3. If your internet service provider didn’t provide a wireless router, get the Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Router.
4. Once you have the above items, connect your high speed internet connection’s network cable to the WAN or internet port on the back of your wireless router.
5. With a network cable, connect your computer to a LAN port (there are usually four of them) on the back of the wireless router and login to the router by following the instructions packaged with the router.
6. After you have logged-on to your router, find the wireless security settings where you: name your network, choose WPA security, and type in a password. Also password protect the router in the administration settings. These security settings keep others from accessing your wireless network.
7. Unplug your computer from the router, wait for Windows to detect your wireless network, and enter the password you chose earlier. If you have wireless built into your laptop, make sure the wireless switch is turned on, usually located on the front of the laptop.

Congratulations, you just setup a secured wireless network yourself. Best Buy’s Geek Squad charges $199 in labor plus equipment charges to setup the wireless network. You just did all that yourself in steps 4-7. Now that you saved that money, go do some Christmas shopping on your couch in your undies.