Q: What are the steps to setting up a wireless home network?

Free your home computing from the trappings of an office desk. You'll be able to take all of those fun-filled digital files on your laptop throughout your home or ring up a cross-country friend for a video Skype call while sitting on your couch. Eric Deming, senior product marketing manager for Linksys' consumer business organization, answers some questions on the topic of basic home networking.

Five Steps to Setting Up a Wireless Home Network

1. Determine what you are going to use the network for. Surfing the Internet? Streaming media? Voice over IP telephony?
2. Check the packaging to decide which router is right for your newly determined needs.
3. Run the setup CD and follow the instructions to hook up the router to your broadband connection. Linksys encourages you to enable security when given the option during setup.
4. Install a notebook or PC adapter to the computer by running the corresponding setup CD.
5. Connect any additional devices to the network.