Absolute Beginner's Guide to Home Networking

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.

Mark Edward Soper, A+, MCP has taught computer troubleshooting and other technical subjects to thousands of students from Maine to Hawaii since 1992. He is the author of Absolute Beginner's Guide to A+ Certification; Upgrading and Repairing PCs, A+ Certification Study Guide, Second Edition; PC Help Desk; Complete Idiot's Guide to High-Speed Internet Connections; Absolute Beginner's Guide to Cable Internet Connections; Easy Digital Cameras; and is co-author of TechTV's Upgrading Your PC. He has contributed to several editions of Upgrading and Repairing PCs as well as multiple other Que titles.