Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 173 pages
- Published by: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics
- Edition: 1st Edition December 13, 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0071486623
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0071486620
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Book Dimensions:
10.7 x 8.4 x 0.7 inches
- Weighs: 15.2 ounces
Reader Reviews
Warning: This book is for home-networking beginners, or "N00bs" (NetSpeak for Newbies). Intermediate or advanced users will scoff at this book and judge it a complete waste of time. Move along. Nothing to see here. Now...if you're a "N00b" and wished you could figger out how to do some of that there cool home-networking stuff, this text just might be a good starting point for teaching yourself. This book contains 24 home networking projects, and is broken up into three sections, each building on the preceeding section. Section 1, Easy, contains 9 *very* basic "projects," such as how to hook up and configure a DSL modem, installing/configuring a wireless router, enabling simple file & printer sharing between computers, how to hook up an external USB drive, and how to use TiVO and Sling Media Bridge -- rediculously simple stuff which can easily confound non tech-saavy users. The Advanced section has ten projects such as sharing your DSL/Broadband connection (install a Router), configuring router firewalls and software firewalls, establishing home networking workgroups, creating windows user accounts, controlling other windows computers with Remote Desktop, and streaming your own multimedia content over the internet. The "Challenging" section contains 5 projects, such as expanding your home network with a wireless bridge, and building your own home server, and being able to access your TiVO files anytime anywhere. Really, everything contained in this book is very, very basic home networking 101, but for the techno-phobe beginner, this might be just the book to lead them by the hand and show them, step by step, how to do the things they've always wanted to do, and take the 98% of the fear out of it. This book is very Windows-centric, but most folks still use some flavor Windows, and Linux still isn't as newbie-friendly as it needs to be, so Linux isn't discussed anywhere here. One thing I do like about this book is that it shows you how to set up a very simple home network, and then shows you how to expand further upon it, both wired and wirelessly, project by project. Overall, not a bad little book, though I find it rather thin (173 pages) for the list price of $25. Personally, I think "Home Networking for Dummies, 4th Ed." (371 pages for $22) is a much better deal, but suit yourself. If (like me) you're an IT Geek with n00b/technophobe friends and family members constantly calling you up asking how to do this and that, this book might be the perfect Christmas/Birthday gift, along with "Home Networking for Dummies, 4th Ed." .Steven Hildebrand.
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