Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 398 pages
- Published by: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics
- Edition: 1st Edition March 24, 2003
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0071410708
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0071410700
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Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.4 x 1.2 inches
- Weighs: 1.8 pounds
Product Description
This book/CD-ROM package is THE definitive reference to the benefits, pitfalls, set-up, troubleshooting, and repair of wireless networks. The author covers the entire range of wireless networks and explains the specific requirements of each individual application.
* Introduces all the various wireless system components--both "off the shelf" and subscriber
* Covers essential technologies such as 802.11a and b, Bluetooth, and 3G cellular phone systems
* Provides solutions for interference, range, and throughput problems
* CD-ROM includes
software tools and utilities to assist with connections, diagnostics, troubleshooting, and repair
Back Cover Copy
CD-ROM packed with diagnostic and troubleshooting software!
PRACTICAL, AUTHORITATIVE GUIDANCE ON KEEPING A WIRELESS NETWORK WORKING HARD FOR YOUR BUSINESS! With annual equipment sales projected to grow to more than $5 billion by mid-decade, wireless networking is clearly a technology whose time has come. But with many wireless networks expected to be created at both small offices and home offices, where can people charged with maintaining them get comprehensive information to help them do just that? The answer is McGraw-Hill’s
Installing, Troubleshooting, and Repairing Wireless Networks. Written with insight by a noted IT expert and commentator, this book provides comprehensive coverage of this rapidly emerging technology, and in the process:
* Introduces all wireless components, both “off-the-shelf” and subscriber products
* Covers WiFi technologies as 802.11a and b
* Includes all scales of wireless networks, from home to office, cafes and campuses, airports and hotels, to MANs, and describes what’s best for different requirements
* Shows how to integrate wired and wireless LANs
* Discusses the benefits and pitfalls of wireless technologies
* Advises how to set up and maintain security features
* And much, much more!
Basic enough for the hobbyist — and yet still detailed enough for the IT professional —
Installing, Troubleshooting, and Repairing Wireless Networks is the essential survival guide for keeping a wireless network up and running.
Reader ReviewsI hate to give this book 2 stars because while reading it I really got the impression that the author was a good guy. Unfortunately I got that impression because he blabs a lot. This book is 300 pages long (not including index/appendices) and honestly could have been done in ninety pages. At first it was nice since I spend so much time reading really difficult books but after awhile I realized that I had read thirty pages and not really gotten anything out of it aside from some anecdotes and a couple tips. The configuration chapters could almost be replaced with the vendors documentation and some common sense. I say almost because most vendors don't really explain how to set up WEP or the ramifications of SSID broadcasts etcetera. The security chapter in this book is 9 pages long! Doing a little math...hmmm, 3% of the book. Considering the security implications of going wireless this is ... bad. To be fair he does throw security warnings all throughout the book, but repeating the same general warnings a bunch of times doesn't help. He also manages to complain about the difficulties of Linux/Unix for about 2 straight pages at one point. He's a Windows guy, fine, I get it. But it's pretty unprofessional to trashtalk in a book. It's also a bit worriesome that the guy we are looking to for technical expertise is so obviously frustrated with something that 14 year olds routinely use. So who would I recommend this book to? Someone who basically knows how to use Windows to check email but not much else. If you know anything about networking or *nix I wouldn't bother.
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