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How to setup a home Network for beginners

  • April 21, 2020November 7, 2021
  • by Adminmytech staff

This Article will show you how to setup a home network for beginners

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In today’s world every home needs a local network and internet connection. Local network or home network is how all your devices such as Smart TV’s, laptops, Mac’s, PC’s, phones, tablets, etc. Connect to each other as well as the internet. In this tutorial you will be able to setup your home network and connect it to the internet.

Things you will need:

  • ISP/Modem
  • Ethernet Cables
  • High Speed Router/WiFi

You will need to choose an Internet Service Provider also known as (ISP). Depending on which ISP you choose they may provide and install this for you. If you choose to provide your own modem here is a suggestion:

  • Netgear Cable Modem

Choosing Internet Speed from you ISP

Internet speed is looking at the bandwidth that is measured in megabits per second. You use this to show the maximum rate you are downloading data from the internet to your device. You will need to look at what you do at home and calculate how much Mbps  

Here is a chart to help determine

If you are doing… Then you will need….
General web surfing, email, social media 1Mbps
Online Gaming 1-3 Mbps
Video streaming 3-4 Mbps
High Definition video streaming 5-8 Mbps
Large file downloading 50+ Mbps

You will need to decide on how you want to connect your devices to the local network either wired or wireless. Where your cable modem is in your home will determine how your devices will connect to the local network.

Depending on the type of devices you have you may have a mixture of wired and wireless connections

Advantages and Disadvantages of wired vs wireless

Wired connects is when you have ethernet connected directly to the device

The Advantage of wired connection:

  •  Getting a faster speed usually between 100Mbps to 10Gbps.

The Disadvantage to wired connection:

  • Having to deal with cables
  • Not all devices have an ethernet port such as tablets and smartphones

Wireless connection is having no connection

The Advantage of wireless connection:

  • Best thing about wireless is no cables

The Disadvantage of wireless connection:

  • Depending on your access point connection will not be as reliable
  • Not as fast as wired connection

Home network structure

Here is a diagram of what you will need for a typical home network:

Home Network Diagram

Once you decide on how you want to build your network you will need a Router and depending on your budget you can get them as separate devices or an all-in-one device.

Suggestion from Amazon:

  • NETGEAR WiFi Router (R6330)

Basic Setup

Power off broadband modem

Connect the power adapter to the wireless router

You will connect ethernet cable from Modem to internet WAN port on the back of your router.

Power on both Modem and router

Take a laptop or computer connect Ethernet cable to the NIC from the device to the LAN port 1 on the back of the router.

Then go to the default gateway

To do this you will need to open an internet browser and enter this gateway that will be given to you by the manufacture for example you will enter http://192.168.0.1 for most D-Link and Netgear routers.

Wifi Setup

Once you log into the router using a default username and password, from there you can setup wifi by creating a SSID and giving it a strong password.

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