Wireless Home Networking

Using Your Wireless Network for Phone Calls

Phones have been around for over a hundred years. In developed countries such as the U.S., the European Union, and many parts of Asia, there are more phones (several times more in some cases) than people. In the intervening century, the phone hasn’t stood still. Two big trends have affected the phone business: the advent […]

Other Cool Things You Can Network (Wireless Home Networking) Part 1

The wireless age is upon us, with all sorts of new devices and capabilities that you can add to your network to save you time and enhance your lifestyle. After you have your wireless local area network in place, which we show you how to do in Parts II and III, you can do a […]

Other Cool Things You Can Network (Wireless Home Networking) Part 2

Not to leave motorcyclists out! The wireless bug is hitting motorcyclists too. Leading motorcycle helmet designers are adding Bluetooth to their products so that motorcyclists can talk on the phone while they ride. If you’re a cyclist and love your helmet now, you can get a Bluetooth kit and just add it — it’s not […]

Using a Bluetooth Network (Wireless Home Networking)

Most of the time, when people talk about wireless networks, they’re # W1 talking about wireless local area networks (LANs). LANs, as the name implies, are local, which means that they don’t cover a wide area (like a town or a city block). Wide area networks (WANs), like the Internet, do that bigger job. For […]

Going Wireless Away from Home Part 1

Throughout this third edition of Wireless Home Networking For topic, we focus (no big surprise here) on wireless networks in your home. But wireless networks aren’t just for the house. For example, many businesses have adopted wireless networking technologies to provide network connections for workers roaming throughout offices, conference rooms, and factory floors. Just about […]

Going Wireless Away from Home Part 2

Staying Secure in a Hot Spot Environment As we mention earlier in the topic, most Wi-Fi hot spots, whether they be free or for pay, utilize no network security and encryption (this is simply because it’s easier for users to get online without trying to figure out WPA passphrases and the like). There are some […]

Ten FAQs about Wireless Home Networks

Wireless networks are increasingly easy to set up, configure, and  connect to. But they are far from foolproof and dead simple. Despite some great efforts by vendors and industry organizations to simplify the wireless buying, installing, and using experience, things can get a bit confusing, even to those in the know. In this topic, we […]

Ten Ways to Troubleshoot Wireless LAN Performance (Wireless Home Networking)

Although troubleshooting any piece of network equipment can be frustrating, troubleshooting wireless equipment is a little more so because there’s so much that you just can’t check. After all, radio waves are invisible. That’s the rub with improving the throughput (performance) of your wireless home network, but we’re here to help. And don’t get hung […]

More Than Ten Devices to Connect to Your Wireless Network in the Future

We tell you throughout this topic to think about the big picture — to think about more than just networking your home computers. In next topic, we talk about adding various peripheral devices (such as a printer) to your home network. In further topic, we talk about using newfangled phone gear over wireless networks. In […]

Top Ten Sources for More Information (Wireless Home Networking)

We’ve tried hard in this topic to capture all that’s happening with wireless networks in the home. However, we can’t cover everything in one book, and so, in fairness to other publications, we’re leaving some things for them to talk about on their Web sites and in their print publications. (Nice of us, isn’t it?) […]

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