Setting Up your Wireless Home Network with Linksys

First of all to set up your wireless home network you need the following
1 A Cable Modem or Dsl modem
2 A wireless Router or Access Point
3 Your Devices
first subscribe to your cable modem internet or dsl either one will do
second plug your dsl/cable modem to wan port of your wireless router

The above Picture is an example of  a Wireless Router  this is a Linkys Router

After Pluging your Modem to Your Router connect your computer to one of the Lan ports on the router and goto your browser type the default ip address to connect to your routers admin interface the ip address used depends on the Manufacturer of the router Linksys Routers  use 192.168.1.1 by default. After going to the admin interface of your router you can then configure it to suit your needs

Admin Interface of Linksys Router

Below are the List of things you should configure
1 SSID this is the name that will be advertised to your wireless Clients
2 DHCP this allows your router to give you an ip address that will allow you to connect to the internet or to other devices on the wireless network
3 Password you should configure two passwords one is to protect the admin interface of your wireless router the other is to protect your wireless network from unauthorised access.
this are the basic steps you take to set up your wireless Home Network

Creating a Default Route in Cisco

A default route is created to instruct your Layer 3 device(Routers,Multilayer Switches) to forward all traffic to a network that is not found in the routing table to a specific address or use a particular interface to send it.

To create a default route in Cisco routers using a Next Hop Address use the Following steps

1 go into global config mode

2 enter the command ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 172.16.10.2

this tells the router to send any traffic to an unknown destination to a next hop of 172.16.10.2

To create a default route in Cisco routers using exit interface use the following steps

1 go into global config mode

2 enter the command ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 s0/0

this tells the router to send any traffic to an unknown destination send it out through interface serial 0/0