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Complete Idiot's Guide to Networking Your Home,
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This review is from: Complete Idiot's Guide to Networking Your Home (Paperback)
This book is useless. Don't buy it. The book doesn't tell you in any detail at all about home networking. It tell's you what you can do with your computer, like adding security system to your computer, connecting the tv to the computer and stuff like that but no about networking. NO WONDER IS SO CHEAP. The book didn't help me out during my installation of my network. To fix the all the problems that I was having with the network,I went to a couple of web site that tell you how to network your computers, from troubleshooting to internet sharing connection.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Informative and friendly,
By A Customer
This review is from: Complete Idiot's Guide to Networking Your Home (Paperback)
I thought networking was for geeks and brother-in-laws (same people). No longer. I had my old pentium and my new P2 connected in no time. The chapters I really used had less to do with my computers but rather more about the things that I could do with them after they were connected. I now have a fully functional stereo system that can play MP3's that are stored on my computer. I also tried some home automation stuff and boy is it ever easy! The Rex 2000 works great!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
out of date and poorly organized,
By Rion (Alameda, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Complete Idiot's Guide to Networking Your Home (Paperback)
This book was helpful to me, in contrast to what the other negative reviewers have said, but I probably could have gotten the same info from the Microsoft online help if I had looked there. I was appalled at how outdated this book was when I got it 2 years ago (Summer 2000). The advances in home networking hardware were significant and just not mentioned in this book. I have an auto-sensing switch - a choice you would never come to from this book.The book has two authors, but either they didn't talk to eachother or there were many others involved that didn't get cover credit. There is one place where they talk about filling in the identification tab of your network applet, but it's many pages later where they tell you how to make sure that the identification tab will actually be there to fill in! At the end of one chapter there is a quick overview of why you should do backups, but they don't bother to mention that there is a whole chapter devoted to backups later in the book!!! Finally, one big personal complaint: can all the stupid humor! Every chapter and section has to be humorous somehow, but this is at the cost of being clear and informative to the reader. I may be an "idiot", so don't confuse me with titles like "Sunny and share".
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