Home Networking Demystified [Paperback]

Larry Long (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0072258780 | ISBN-13: 978-0072258783 | Publication Date: March 17, 2005 | Edition: 1

No need to be intimidated by home networking! With a very readable and easy to understand writing style, this book takes the anxiety out of learning how to build or expand a home network. Read a home networking book organised like a fun and painless self-teaching guide. Use the 8-page, 2-colour visual instruction insert to see how to set up a home network. Take end of chapter quizzes to check your progress, as well as a final exam found at the end of the book.

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The fast and easy way to build a home network

Learn to set up your own wired or wireless home network quickly and easily. In this step-by-step guide, Dr. Larry Long offers clear explanations of networking technologies and describes current and future home networking applications. You’ll learn to design your network, select the components, install any necessary wiring, connect to the Internet, connect PCs to the network, set up security measures, and troubleshoot your network. Once you get your home network up and running, you’ll be able take full advantage of everything it has to offer, such as shared resources including Internet access, files, and printers. Integrate digital home entertainment, play multiplayer games, and set up a virtual private network (VPN), voice over IP telephones, and other home networking applications. You’ll also get details on how home networking can complement telework. Filled with clear instructions and helpful illustrations and photos, Home Networking Demystified is your shortcut to setting up a complete home network and enjoying the benefits of an e-home.

This all-in-one book explains how to:

• Plan and design a home network
• Be an intelligent consumer of home networking products and services
• Share resources, including an Internet connection, files, printers, videos, and images
• Secure, maintain, and troubleshoot your home network
• Set up digital entertainment features, VoIP telephoning, video surveillance, and telework via VPN

Dr. Larry Long, author of more than 50 computer books including Personal Computing Demystified, had a home network 15 years before anyone used the term “home networking”.

About the Author

Dr. Larry Long (Fayetteville, AR) has written more than 30 books on IT topics (including computers), which have been widely distributed in more than 50 countries. He has more than two decades of classroom experience at the University of Oklahoma and Lehigh University. Larry’s Ph.D. is in Industrial Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. Larry was a pioneer in the development of computer-based multimedia and Internet-based educational resources.

Product Details

• Paperback: 309 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (March 17, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072258780
• ISBN-13: 978-0072258783
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #990,631 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book saved the day for me!, July 9, 2006

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Betty Beatty (Franklin Grove, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Home Networking Demystified (Paperback)

Dr. Larry Long's book saved the day for me. I was trying to network three computers to a printer using the Linksys WPS54G Wireless USB print server. I was not able to accomplish this and then I remembered I had bought this book. Dr. Long explains in his book that Windows treats a networked printer as a local printer. So when I installed my printer software on my laptop and second desktop I had to indicate that I was installing to a local printer attached to my computer (it's attached via the network). One does not choose Network Printer (which seems like the logical choice). Installation was a breeze after I read Dr. Long's chapter on sharing printers, files and an Internet connection. Thank you Dr. Long. Your book saved the day for me.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars easy instructions, August 6, 2005

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This review is from: Home Networking Demystified (Paperback)

Long takes the mystique out of setting up your home network. In plain language, adorned with only a minimal of jargon, he helps you plan and install your network. Where this can be purely wired, wireless or a combination of both.

He also draws your attention to network security. Especially if you have wireless nodes. Without care, these can be easily detected by someone wardriving around your neighbourhood and then used as her connection to the Internet. If that's all she does, you might say, what's the big deal? But there is no assurance that she will merely use your network as a passive conduit. She might also launch attacks against your machines. The book suggests how to protect yourself.

It's really not that difficult to set up your net. Perhaps the best advice about this book is simply to get started on it. That initial hurdle may be the hardest.

1.0 out of 5 stars Uh, Should Be Home PC networks and old, 2005, February 5, 2011

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This review is from: Home Networking Demystified (Kindle Edition)

I was hoping this book would allow me to understand the terms, uses, impacts and how to use the different options and menu items in my NETGEAR router modem.
Also It is attached to a MAcintosh
I read the section on starting your network-- Run your Windows XP installation--sigh
10 bucks wated