Wireless Router

Hello I've entered the world of wireless router
for my home LAN. I managed to configure and
get working a Linksys wireless G router.
I've generated a Key during setup and wrote this
key down on paper and then put the same key
in on the setup of my Laptop wireless setup. Everything
works (most of the time) but I have these two questions
that are bugging me.
1.The laptop boots up and connects to the linksys connection
since that is the one I configured as Preferred, and it is the
one I gave the Key, However..... there is another connection
that comes up (on the laptop) available called "Wireless"
What is this and should I give it the same Key as my linksys
connection? There doesn't seem to be anyway to delete it.
My whole concern here is security from unwanted access.
-----also
2.And on my Desktop under Network connections I
have the "Local Area connection" which under properties
shows it as my Ethernet card specs.
and also I now have another connection shown as
"Internet Connection" which under properties shows
msmsgs(192.168.1.2:10498) 43240 UDP
msmsgs(192.168.1.2:8363) 1506 TCP
as being services offered, should I uncheck these??
---appreciate any info and/or links to pertinent help

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 09:36:42 -0500, "JG" <NoMail@NoSpam> wrote:

> Hello I've entered the world of wireless router
>for my home LAN. I managed to configure and
>get working a Linksys wireless G router.
> I've generated a Key during setup and wrote this
>key down on paper and then put the same key
>in on the setup of my Laptop wireless setup. Everything
>works (most of the time) but I have these two questions
>that are bugging me.
>1.The laptop boots up and connects to the linksys connection
>since that is the one I configured as Preferred, and it is the
>one I gave the Key, However..... there is another connection
>that comes up (on the laptop) available called "Wireless"
>What is this and should I give it the same Key as my linksys
>connection? There doesn't seem to be anyway to delete it.
>My whole concern here is security from unwanted access.
>-----also
>2.And on my Desktop under Network connections I
>have the "Local Area connection" which under properties
>shows it as my Ethernet card specs.
>and also I now have another connection shown as
>"Internet Connection" which under properties shows
>msmsgs(192.168.1.2:10498) 43240 UDP
>msmsgs(192.168.1.2:8363) 1506 TCP
>as being services offered, should I uncheck these??
>---appreciate any info and/or links to pertinent help
>

1. Your wireless card driver scans the air looking for access points, so if
there are other beacons in your neighborhood it will list those along with
yours. Ignore them.

2. Windows Messenger Service. Google it and then decide if you want to disable
the ports it uses...