Placing Home Antennas The twin antennas on access points and Peripheral Component Interface (PCI)-based interface cards can be tilted and rotated. Usually, they ...
Physical Planning for Wi-Fi Home Network We will assume from here on that you’ve decided on Wi-Fi as the way to make your network. Even if you have an existing network using one of...
True Wireless Wireless LAN (WLAN) products have become widely popular and firmly established in the marketplace. In late 2002, Microsoft announced their ...
Networking over Electrical Wiring As with DSL and phone-line networking, power-line technology uses your existing AC wiring as a transport for a data carrier frequency. Powe...
Alternatives to Wi-Fi In some circumstances, you might not be able use Wi-Fi in your home. You may have PCs that are so spread out that one access point will not...
Sharing a Broadband Internet Connection If you have an existing network, and you’ve just installed a broadband link to the Internet, you can make that link work for all your exist...
Installing DSL One of the corollaries to Murphy’s Law states that “Before you do anything, you have to do something else first.” All the equipment and ser...
Fixed Wireless The last of the four linking methods is actually another version of home Wi-Fi technology.With fixed wireless or point-to-point DSL, a high...
Ma Bell DSL Spurred by relentless competition, the telephone companies are anxious to sign up as many customers as they can. Virtually every major tele...
Cable TV DSL Your choice between the other pathways is likewise determined by which ones are available in your area. DSL over cable is pretty much the s...