How To Start Wireless Network In Windows 7

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ETSU wireless access points are available to ETSU students, kinesthesia, and staff. The ii wireless networks are ETSU and ETSURESNET. If you have a wireless adapter (wireless menu) in your computer, you will exist able to connect to the ETSU or ETSURESNET network via a wireless connection. Security for all ETSU Wireless Access Points is enabled by PEAP (Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol).

If y'all are trying to connect to an ETSU wireless access point with your personal computer, please employ the following instructions. These instructions are presuming that Windows is controlling the wireless menu. If your computer is using a specific program to control wireless connections, you can use the settings that are provided hither to effort to configure the programme. ITS cannot provide any specific instructions for setting up a wireless connection for whatever wireless configuration programs that may take come with your machine.

Notation: Windows 7 may detect the network and ask you for your username and password. Most likely the connection withal won't work, even if you provide your right username and countersign, until your wireless connectedness has been properly configured using the steps below

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If y'all're viewing the listing of wireless connections, y'all tin try correct-clicking on ETSU. If an selection that says "Properties" comes up, you tin can go down to step five to finish upwardly configuring the connection. Otherwise, use the steps below.

Click on the Offset push, go to Control Panel and so cull Network and Sharing Center. If your Command Console is showing things in Category view, click on Network and Cyberspace and yous'll find Network and Sharing Heart there. When you lot become there, you should see an option that says Set upwards a new connection or network.
Choose the Manually connect to a wireless network option and then click on Adjacent.
Type in ETSU for the Network proper name, cull WPA2-Enterprise for the Security blazon, and the Encryption type should be set up to AES. Go out the Security Central/ Passphrase field bare. Be sure that the box labeled Start this connectedness automatically is checked. Click on Side by side.
Y'all'll get a screen that says that it successfully added ETSU. At this point, you demand to click on Change connexion settings. When the next screen comes up, click on the Security tab.
On this screen, be certain that the Security blazon is gear up to WPA2-Enterprise and that the Encryption type is set up to AES. In the box under Choose a network authentication method:, exist sure that it references "Protected EAP (PEAP)". When those are gear up, click on the Settings push.
On this screen, you lot need to uncheck Validate server certificate. Ensure that the Select Authentication Method is set to "Secured password".
Next, click on the Configure button to the right and uncheck the box as shown below, then click on the OK button.
Click on the OK button to get out of the Protected EAP Properties screen. On the ETSU Properties window, click the push nigh the bottom labeled "Avant-garde Settings."
Bank check mark the box reading "Specify authentication way" and change the driblet-downwards value to "User authentication." The settings should announced similar to the picture shown here:

Click OK, and then click OK once again to get out of the ETSU properties screen.
In the lower right-hand part of the screen about the clock, you lot should get a notification bubble like this:

Click on that chimera to become the login prompt to appear.
At this screen, but enter your ETSU username and your password. Click on the OK button.
After a few seconds, your machine should be connected to the network.