Wireless Home Networking for Dummies (For Dummies)
£8.37
with this and three other books you can have a home network running - summary introductonHaving decided to format my XP Home computer and use this opportunity to create a new wireless home network i read through these books before hand several times. The overall ideas in this book really helped me to understand and with the allied book Networking for Dummies (ISBN 0-7645-9939-9) the two working together proved useful and easy to read.Summary of issues involved in creating a home wireless network (i.m.h.o)When I had finished a clean re-install of XP, I had structured in what order I needed to work to protect my system from online virus infections and hackers. So as part of this I found that to receive updates from Microsoft via a wireless network I was planning that my computer lacked a 32 bit 10/100 pci Mb / sec Ethernet card. So using the books I selected and bought it at a low price in a specialist consumer computer store. Summary of my difficulties in creating a home wireless network (i.m.h.o)Without this other book ( Microsoft Windows XP Inside Out, second edition (ISBN 978-0-7356-2044-5)) I would have been stuck with this next step as it was left out of these two books, unless I missed it? The trick I discovered is if you have a previous ADSL type connection card in your computer, its best to use the operating system to disabled this card, shut XP down, and then open the case and physically remove the previous network adapter and replace it with the new Ethernet card and restart the computer then install its drivers. After sorting out the SP2 CD disk and installation of firewall and anti-virus software beforehand, and then set up the Router to connect with the web, I could then request updates from Microsoft. Then I could reinstall my printer etc. However, my drive failed, so i used another book Build Your Own Computer: The Step-by-step Guide (Hardcover) by Kyle MacRae. and did all this again bit quicker, and my system is great.Summary of my experiences with this and the two other books I suggested (i.m.h.o)All of my actions I have described here would have been beyond me without the three books I have mentioned. I have now more willingness to try and do it for myself with the combined knowledge of these three books to hand. And I guestimate I have saved around as a minimum of 150 U.K pounds in doing this for myself. In summary I feel having used these three books together to solve problems in the creation of a wireless network at an accelerated rate, and have increased my practical skills and enjoyed it at the same time. Although I must add it took most of a weekend to get it running fully.
Class! - I currently do ICT an college and even with my knowledge of networking the thought of setting up a wireless network scared me to death.But this book has everythink you need to know, from the basics to all the technical bits.Its worth every penny!