Home Networking Annoyances (Kindle Edition)

by Kathy Ivens (Author)

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Product Description

Need a cure for the headaches associated with running a home network? This book tackles all the common annoyances your network dishes up--whether it's wired or wireless. With a friendly, off-the-cuff approach, this book guides you safely through common home networking glitches, including file sharing, printing, security, and more. Take a stand against annoyances now: just as the bestselling PC Annoyances brought peace and happiness to PC users everywhere, Home Networking Annoyances is your ticket to serenity.

About the Author

Kathy Ivens is the author of more than 50 computer books, including the previous editions of this title. She is a senior contributing editor for Windows IT Pro Magazine.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 4271 KB
• Print Length: 224 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. (January 25, 2005)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0026OR3GC
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #167,064 in Kindle Store (See Bestsellers in Kindle Store)

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars clear explanations, February 27, 2005

By	W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Home Networking Annoyances: How to Fix the Most Annoying Things about Your Home Network (Paperback)

A grab-bag of hardware and software fixes. Logically, the book starts with discussing hardware problems. Simply because if you can't overcome some of these, you won't have any software problems. Frankly, this hardware section is the most important part of the book. Grubby, but often occurring issues like how to run ethernet between rooms or floors in a building. It's things like this that make some people opt for wireless connections. Much cleaner and easier, right? Well, Ivens explains that you get other problems. Like a greater risk of evesdropping. Or your wireless transmissions might be blocked by metal objects in your environment.

Don't take the "Home" in the book's title too literally. Much of the book can be germane to you having to set up a network in a workplace.

A lot of the book's value is in how Ivens plainly and simply explains the problems and their fixes. In very nontechnical terms that make it clear what you can do to resolve the problems.

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Book Quickly Solved a Problem I had, March 22, 2005

By	John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Home Networking Annoyances: How to Fix the Most Annoying Things about Your Home Network (Paperback)

I have a home network. Well, really it's a small network in a home that I use for business. I don't know if that's a home or business network. But anyway, I have one.

It's working at the moment.

The reason it's working is because I bought this book. The data comes in on a DSL line into a D-Link router. I usually write things like IP address, login name, password, etc. on a slip of paper and tape it to the bottom of the device. I have a good memory, but short, and this helps.

No login name oe password on the router. I picked up this book, and on page 28 there the annoyance -- Getting to the router. Here she gives the IP address of the router (and those of Belkin, Linksys, and Netgear) as well as the default user names and passwords.

Fixing just one problem like this makes this book well worth while. And reading the rest of the book (fast to read because you only look at the annoyance and skip the answer if it doesn't apply to your problem of the moment) gave me several better understandings of some of the problems that I've faced before.

This is a beginning to intermediate level book on home networking. It's a lot more than just annoyances.

12 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Deep into networking, February 7, 2005

By	Jack D. Herrington "engineer and author" (Silicon Valley, CA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Home Networking Annoyances: How to Fix the Most Annoying Things about Your Home Network (Paperback)

It would be easy to think of a whole variety of things as networking, web clients, email, ftp. This book works at a lower level than that, debugging routers, internet connectivity, file sharing, and the basics. Though the basics can be difficult. If I could fault the book it would be that the exposition for some of the recipes are a little too short. Simply introducing a solution as opposed to walking through it at a reasonable depth. That being said, sometimes sign posts are as valuable as step-by-step maps.