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Setting up a wireless network can be quite easy; if you have all the correct equipment to do so. Before you start to set it up, there are a few things you want to make sure you have before starting. First thing is make sure you have a active internet connection, second thing needed is a wireless router that you can let out a good wifi signal out, third is to ensure your computers and printer all have a wireless network adapter installed. Before we get started let’s check out the computers; we need to make sure each one has a wireless network adapter installed. The easiest way to check wireless adapter is to go into the computers Control Panel. From Control Panel select System and click on the Hardware tab then click Device Manager. You need to scroll through a list until you see Network Adapters. Click on the plus sign and see if a wireless adapter is listed. A giveaway will be It will say something like; ‘802.11’ wireless A/B/G/N. There is one last place to look but is a little tricky. Go to start  Run and type in CMD. An old fashioned ‘DOS’ window will open up. At the ‘C’ prompt type in ‘IPCONFIG’ and press enter. Scroll through the list and look for a line that says something like “Ethernet Wireless Adapter”. This will indicate a wireless adapter is installed. If you don’t have a wireless card you can purchase a external wireless adapter for $10.00 at Newegg.com. After you determine if you have wireless card or not you can go onto the next step; which is purchasing a good quality Wireless Router. You can get a Netgear Router at Bestbuy for $80.00 it gets up to 600 Mbps data transfer, just enough data to network the computers together to play Ultra Super Robot Kill-Fest in team mode. One you get the wireless router you will set it up according to the box instructions; a router usually comes with a Ethernet cable. You take your Ethernet cable and connect from the Ethernet modem to the Ethernet port of the Wireless Router. Now with it hooked