Home Networking Demystified

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 309 pages
• Published by: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Edition: 1st Edition March 17, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0072258780
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0072258783
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 1.3 pounds

Product Description
The fast and easy way to build a home network. Learn to set up your own wired or wireless home network quickly and easily. In this step-by-step guide, Dr. Larry Long offers clear explanations of networking technologies and describes current and future home networking applications. You'll learn to design your network, select the components, install any necessary wiring, connect to the Internet, connect PCs to the network, set up security measures, and troubleshoot your network. Once you get your home network up and running, you'll be able take full advantage of everything it has to offer, such as shared resources including Internet access, files, and printers. Integrate digital home entertainment, play multiplayer games, and set up a virtual private network (VPN), voice over IP telephones, and other home networking applications. You'll also get details on how home networking can complement telework. Filled with clear instructions and helpful illustrations and photos, Home Networking Demystified is your shortcut to setting up a complete home network and enjoying the benefits of an e-home.

This all-in-one book explains how to:
Plan and design a home network
Be an intelligent consumer of home networking products and services
Share resources, including an Internet connection, files, printers, videos, and images
Secure, maintain, and troubleshoot your home network
Set up digital entertainment features, VoIP telephoning, video surveillance, and telework via VPN
Dr. Larry Long, author of more than 50 computer books including Personal Computing Demystified, had a home network 15 years before anyone used the term "home networking." --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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The fast and easy way to build a home network

Learn to set up your own wired or wireless home network quickly and easily. In this step-by-step guide, Dr. Larry Long offers clear explanations of networking technologies and describes current and future home networking applications. You’ll learn to design your network, select the components, install any necessary wiring, connect to the Internet, connect PCs to the network, set up security measures, and troubleshoot your network. Once you get your home network up and running, you’ll be able take full advantage of everything it has to offer, such as shared resources including Internet access, files, and printers. Integrate digital home entertainment, play multiplayer games, and set up a virtual private network (VPN), voice over IP telephones, and other home networking applications. You’ll also get details on how home networking can complement telework. Filled with clear instructions and helpful illustrations and photos, Home Networking Demystified is your shortcut to setting up a complete home network and enjoying the benefits of an e-home.

This all-in-one book explains how to:

• Plan and design a home network
• Be an intelligent consumer of home networking products and services
• Share resources, including an Internet connection, files, printers, videos, and images
• Secure, maintain, and troubleshoot your home network
• Set up digital entertainment features, VoIP telephoning, video surveillance, and telework via VPN

Dr. Larry Long, author of more than 50 computer books including Personal Computing Demystified, had a home network 15 years before anyone used the term “home networking”.

Reader Reviews
Long takes the mystique out of setting up your home network. In plain language, adorned with only a minimal of jargon, he helps you plan and install your network. Where this can be purely wired, wireless or a combination of both. He also draws your attention to network security. Especially if you have wireless nodes. Without care, these can be easily detected by someone wardriving around your neighbourhood and then used as her connection to the Internet. If that's all she does, you might say, what's the big deal? But there is no assurance that she will merely use your network as a passive conduit. She might also launch attacks against your machines. The book suggests how to protect yourself. It's really not that difficult to set up your net. Perhaps the best advice about this book is simply to get started on it. That initial hurdle may be the hardest.