Wi-Fi Home Networking Just the Steps For Dummies

Wi-Fi Home Networking Just the Steps For Dummies is the wayto go if you're ready to go wireless and install your ownwireless home network. The book's easy-to-navigate designfeatures two columns, with numbered step-by-step instructions onone side and corresponding illustrations, screen shots, or photoson the other. There's no fluff, just the vitalstuff--Just The Steps you need to get up to speed fast.This guide covers common networking tasks, including: * Setting up wireless access points and configuring yournetwork * Adding wireless devices to your network * Activating Wi-Fi Security, managing firewalls, and preventingunauthorized network users You don't have to leave WI-Fi behind when you leave home;this practical reference tells you how to find public hotspotswhere you can use your Wi-Fi-equipped portable computer and how tonetwork wirelessly with your pocket PC. It covers practicalapplications like creating a network bridge or adding wirelessnetwork storage, plus fun ways to use your tech toys to integrateand enhance your digital life, such as: * Setting up a wireless media center so you can use a computerfor streaming media, as a TV tuner, as a digital video recorder, orto integrate with your TV and home entertainment system * Turning your pocket PC into a remote control * Adding a wireless camera to your network Even if your current system with its cables, wires, andconvoluted connections works, it's time to cut the cord.Going wireless gives you many advantages and new options. So takethe first step--get this book.