Absolute Beginner's Guide to Home Networking (Absolute Beginner's Guide)

Finally, there is a guide to home networking that was written for true beginners! The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Home Networking goes far beyond traditional printer or Internet sharing and is geared to help you understand home network types and concepts, install, configure and interconnect various types of wired and wireless networks. This easy-to-understand guide will help you achieve the desired goals of entertainment, information access and home security control with Windows, MacOS and Linux-based systems. Soon you will learn to share and enhance entertainment and even integrate business network hardware with a home network to exploit telecommuting, work-from-home and remote education opportunities. Finally, there's an authoritative guide to home networking. Absolute Beginner's Guide to Home Networking goes far beyond traditional printer or Internet sharing, and is geared to help readers: * Understand home network types and concepts. * Install, configure and interconnect various types of wired and wireless networks to achieve the desired goals of entertainment, information access, and home security/control with Windows, MacOS, and Linux-based systems. * Use the home network to share and enhance entertainment (digital audio and video) and recreation (Internet access, online gaming, IM and video chat) options. * Integrate business network hardware (notebooks with Intel Centrino technology, Wi-Fi or Intel PRO/100 or PRO/1000 wired Ethernet) with a home network to exploit telecommuting, work-from-home, and remote education opportunities via Internet, VPN, and remote-access connections. * Manage and control home lighting, HVAC, and security within the home and remotely. * Manage, protect and troubleshoot the home network. [This book] teaches you how to go far beyond traditional printer or Internet sharing and is geared to help readers make their home networks part of their lives--from setting the ultimate gaming network, to creating a wireless network that lets you work from a lounge chair in front of the TV, to sharing files between multiple PCs around the house.-Back cover Helps readers understand how to use a home network to share and enhance entertainment and recreation, integrate business software to exploit telecommuting, and manage and control home lighting and security