Book description
Finally, there is a guide to home networking that was written for true beginners! The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Home Networking goes far beyond traditional printer or Internet sharing and is geared to help you understand home network types and concepts, install, configure and interconnect various types of wired and wireless networks. This easy-to-understand guide will help you achieve the desired goals of entertainment, information access and home security control with Windows, MacOS and Linux-based systems. Soon you will learn to share and enhance entertainment and even integrate business network hardware with a home network to exploit telecommuting, work-from-home and remote education opportunities.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Introduction
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I. Network Your Life, Not Just Your Computers
- 1. What Is a Home Network?
- 2. Building Blocks of the Home Network
- 3. Planning Your Home Network
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II. Building Your Home Network
- 4. Choosing a Broadband Internet Access Technology
- 5. Installing and Configuring a Wired Ethernet Network
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6. Installing and Configuring a Wi-Fi Network
- What Is Wireless Ethernet?
- The Three Flavors of Wi-Fi
- Building Your Wireless Ethernet Network
- Configuring Your Wireless Network
- Increasing the Range and Speed of Your Connection
- Building Up Your Wireless Network
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III. Enjoying Your Home Network
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7. Home Networks at Play
- Playing Photos, Video, and Music on Your Home Theater System
- Adding Network and Online Gaming to Your Home Network
- Adding Set-Top Digital Video Recorders to Your Home Network
- Using Multimedia PCs on Your Home Network
- 8. Home Networks at Work and School
- 9. Home, Sweet, Controlled and Secure Home
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7. Home Networks at Play
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IV. Managing and Troubleshooting Your Network
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10. Securing Your Home Network
- Securing Your Wireless and Wired Ethernet Networks
- Securing Your Broadband Internet Connection
- Protecting Your Family
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11. Troubleshooting Your Home Network
- The Home Networker’s Guide to TCP/IP
- Troubleshooting Your Network
- Troubleshooting Cabling Problems
- Correcting Broadband Internet Device Problems
- Troubleshooting Your PC’s Ethernet and USB Connections
- Solving Routing Problems
- More Help from Many Places
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10. Securing Your Home Network
Product information
- Title: Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Home Networking
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2004
- Publisher(s): Que
- ISBN: 9780768683905
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