- [Instructor] Let's talk about the controls
for connecting to the internet.
I'm approaching this assuming
you do have access to a network in your home
or office or some other location.
And to start, I am not connected to the internet.
In the bottom-right corner in the taskbar,
this icon here is what you'll see if you are not connected.
Now one easy way to connect to the internet
is if you use wifi,
which is a wireless connection.
To do this, your computer has to be somewhere
with an available wifi network.
Then, you can click here to open the quick settings panel,
and you'll see there's an option here for wifi.
What you'll need to do is click the arrow next to that
and that shows a list of all of the wireless networks
in range of your computer.
If your wireless router and internet connection
are set up right,
you should see the name of your network on this list.
You can select it,
then confirm that you want to connect to it,
and if it is protected by a password,
you'll need to type that in,
then click Next.
So after a moment,
it will show that I am connected to that network.
I can click the back button here
to go back to the quick settings panel
and I can see the name of the network I'm connected to.
Also, if you need to,
you can quickly disable your wifi network connection
by just clicking on this wifi button.
That turns wifi off,
and later, you can come back here
and click that button again to turn it on.
And unless you change some settings,
your computer will automatically reconnect to wifi networks
that you've connected to before whenever you're in range.
So I'm back on that network
and I can continue using the internet.
There's also an option here for the airplane mode.
That turns off all wireless connections,
including Bluetooth.
Now, of course, some airplanes do have onboard wifi.
In those cases, you might turn on airplane mode,
but then once airplane mode is on,
you can go back here and turn wifi back on again.
That leaves all other wireless services turned off,
like Bluetooth or cellular connections.
And when your flight is over,
you can just turn the airplane mode off again.
So those are the options that most people will use
to connect to a wifi network,
but there are more options.
Now you could right-click on the wifi option
and choose Go To Settings.
Or you could just start by going into the Start Menu
and going to settings from here,
then go to the network and internet category
over on the left.
So most computers connect to a network,
either through wifi or through ethernet,
which is a wired connection.
Most computers sold today have wifi built in,
but there are some that do not have the option for ethernet.
Here in my network settings,
you can see that I'm set up for both wifi and ethernet.
Let's start by going into the wifi settings
where we just have an expanded version
of the controls we just saw.
You can turn wifi on or off.
If you click Show Available Networks,
you can see a list of all of the networks that are in range.
and another option I like,
if you go to Manage Known Networks,
you can forget networks that you've been connected to.
So if you do not want your computer
to automatically reconnect to a network in the future,
you can come here and click Forget.
So now I've disconnected from that network and my computer
will not automatically reconnect to it again
unless I go through that connection set up.
So naturally, now if I go back
to the network and internet category,
it tells me that I'm not connected to the internet.
Now another common way to connect to the internet
is with ethernet, the wired connection.
So I'm going to select that option.
Now if you have the ethernet option,
you just need to connect the cable to your modem or router,
and then locate the port on your computer
where the ethernet cable plugs in.
So I'm going to do that.
I'm going to plug the cable into my computer now.
And after a moment,
I can see it's telling me I am connected.
And if I go back to the network
and internet category here in settings,
it shows that I'm connected,
and I can see that the icon down here
in the system tray has changed.
This is what it looks like when you're connected
to a wired connection.
Just remember, networking can get
more complicated than this.
If you hit the limits of what we saw here,
contact your tech support or IT department.