Beginners Guide to Wireless Networking

Here's a summary of everything you will learn in this concise but information packed resource...




From the basics:

• What a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) is and how it works

• Simplifying the jargon

• The myth of difficult and expensive installation

• Why you really do need a WLAN in your home

• One Internet access account for all your computers

• Sharing printers, scanners, copiers - why buy more than one?

• Sharing files, playing games, distributing music - the ultimate interactive home

• TiVo - Watch a program recorded in another room - or store it on your hard drive

• The importance of that first word: Wireless

• Most new laptops and PCs already are WLAN ready - if you are
  
   

To the detailed:

• How to match your WLAN to your house

• Which approach will get through your walls best

• How to get the most range and cleanest connection

• What - or who - in your house or neighborhood may interfere with your WLAN

• What equipment you need - and what you don't

• From typical set-ups to the needs of those with more complex systems

• How to put it all together with the least fuss and muss \

• The pros and cons of file and Internet sharing

• Troubleshooting made easy
  
  
   

To beyond the home and into the future:

• Hotspots - If your laptop is wireless-ready, odds are so are the airport, coffee shop, business district, convention center, hotel where you take it

• Security - A serious concern at home and on the road, addressed in depth

• Bluetooth & RFID - Taking wireless from "Local" to "Personal" with extremely short-range connection technologies - and why you should care