7. Connecting to the Internet

The main reason most people set up a wireless home network is to share an Internet connection. We depend on the Internet for just about everything these days, from basic communications (via email and instant messaging) to social networking (with Facebook and Twitter) to being entertained (with streaming movies and music)—and we do so on a variety of different devices. It’s not just a single computer doing email and web browsing; these days, we connect our smartphones and videogame ...

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