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In addition to this, those of you that are possibly using Windows Vista, remember to set the new network to be a ‘Private Network’.
That will ensure that if you plug any other devices into your router that they can both be detected.
Apart from that, really good article that will certainly help the novice users.
Good tip. I have to look into that for my home network.