This book and the projects in it are about GO! You??™ll find out that you??™ll want to
correct things in your firewall/router, Windows configuration, secure your network
and computers, share that printer, get that wireless working in the back-forty (OK,
back-forty square-feet, it??™s a small place, work with me, please??¦). You??™ll be sharing
music, checking your own weather, watching TV on your laptop (without a tuner card),
and enjoying numerous other aspects of home networking??”reliably, and a lot more
secure than before.
This is the book you will take to your friends and say, ???hey, I found out how to??¦???
and then be able to sit down at a computer and do ???it??? in 20??“30 minutes. (Sorry, this
book will not help you if you??™ve forgotten your password and locked yourself out of
your computer.)
What You??™ll Do
This book consists of 24 separate, but increasingly interrelated, projects covering the
basics of broadband Internet connections through expanding your network in multiple
ways, and taking advantage of a reliable and secure network to have some fun. Here
are some examples of what you??™ll find:
Six projects cover creating, securing, and expanding your home network from
broadband through wireless.
Six projects cover enhancing and sharing services between your Windows
computers??”from files to printers to remote control.
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Eight projects cover multimedia services, such as sharing weather and
streaming media, to accessing resources inside your home network across
the Internet.
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