Wireless Home Networking For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Danny Briere, Pat Hurley, Edward Ferris

ISBN 10: 0471749400 / ISBN 13: 9780471749400

Verlag: For Dummies, 2006

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Good condition. 2nd edition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers X05B-01155

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Titel: Wireless Home Networking For Dummies, 2nd ...

Verlag: For Dummies

Erscheinungsdatum: 2006

Einband: Softcover

Zustand: Good

Auflage: 2. Auflage

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Book by Danny Briere Pat Hurley Edward Ferris

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Get hooked up without getting tangled up in cords, wires, cables or techno mumbo. With "Wireless Home Networking For Dummies", you can go wireless without going mad. It shows you how to plan, install, secure, and use a wireless home network for PCs or Macs. See how easy it is to share your Internet connection, files, folders, printers, and other peripherals. Put your gaming console on your wireless network and play multiuser computer games - even online. With lots of helpful diagrams, screen shots, and step by step instructions, this guide: gives you the info you need to make wise wireless buying and connecting decisions; covers the latest security issues and hardware as well as today's wireless standards, including Wi Fi/802.11 (a, b, g, e, and i), Bluetooth, UWB (Universal Wide Band), WiMAX, and ZigBee; tells you how to use an inexpensive networking kit to connect your gaming console to a broadband Internet connection and speed up your commands; that's often a matter of virtual life and death; discusses alternatives to wireless networking, including Bluetooth, HPNA, and Home Plug; and, learn how to network your entertainment center for all kinds of options. Whether you have a $300 TV set or a $25,000 home theater system, you can wireless enable almost any type of A/V equipment. Then you can use your PC to store audio and video tracks for playback on your TV and through your stereo, stream movies from the Internet and play them on your big screen, load pictures from your digital camera on your PC and view them on the TV, and more. This book will show you how to make your home entertainment system much more entertaining, with: info on plugging into wireless with wireless A/V adapters; the latest on wireless media servers like the Sonos Music System; the scoop on the ultimate home theater PC (HTPC) that plays CDs and DVDs, acts as a PVR (personal video recorder); lets you play video games on the big screen, and more; tips for buying wireless bridges, along with some specific products and their Web sites; and, find out about how to go wireless wherever you go, with info on public wireless hot spots and types of free and for pay networks. Delve into the whole home wireless revolution and see how you can add smart home devices to your network, connect to your car or your home security video monitors, use your cell phone as a remote control, and more. "Wireless Home Networking For Dummies" even gives you a look into the not so distant future and the wireless wonders in the works!