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Brian Cooley
CNET Editor-at-Large
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Acknowledgments
Of course, special thanks go to Judy Bass at McGraw-Hill for yet another wonderful
project, and for all of her support. I??™m quite flattered to again work
with my favorite editor, and coincidentally enough, on a collaborative project for
CNET for whom I was the Windows Helpdesk columnist a while back??”the ???techfamily???
bond is comforting. Steve G. at Verizon Wireless, and Brian J. at SlingMedia,
both deserve special recognition and thanks for their help with evaluation product
and support. Not in the least, to my co-workers and the hundreds, perhaps thousands,
or even millions of users and readers I hope I??™ve helped with each e-mail, article,
and book??”without them there would be no reason to share all this technology
and empowerment.
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Introduction
You may be thinking that home networking is so ubiquitous there could not
possibly be anything new or different to do with this interconnected marvel of
now everyday technology. You can surf the Web on any of two to three PCs, upload
and download photos, fill an MP3 player to the brim, and chat with your friends and
family via IM??”what more could you want?
I??™ve learned from a lot of my friends and co-workers that indeed, that??™s about all
they can do with their home network now. But they also know about file sharing,
printer sharing, wireless, voice chats, and webcams, and think they??™ll set up those
???pretty soon?????”until they hear someone else has hit a snag in their efforts to do more,
and then they stop.
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