WinXP Routing - Staying Online During Hurricane Wilma by Darren Miller
Hurricane Wilma Put Me Out Of Business For A While ----------------------------------------------- WinXP Routing - My consulting services business is heavily dependent on Internet access. Without it, I am pretty much dead in the water. Since I cannot afford an enterprise satellite backup... How To Configure A Laptop As A Wireless Internet Access Point ----------------------------------------------- Note: I am making the assumption that you already have a basic understanding of IP routing as well as how to use the Windows registry editor.

Take Your Laptop For A Walk On The Wireless Side by Laramie Cahill
Wireless internet access is truly the wave of the future and depending on where you live the future could be now. Wireless "hotspots" really are popping up somewhere on a daily basis. Not that I'm complaining, because having the ability to access the internet via a wireless connection is a great... Businesses are falling all over themselves to provide free Internet access to their business customers - cafes, hotels and airports are all starting to offer wireless access to anyone who happens to be around.

Cisco Certification: Building Your Home Lab, Part II by Chris Bryant
In the first part of this home lab tutorial, CCNA and CCNP candidates can see that there are a LOT of choices when it comes to what to buy to build your own Cisco practice lab. Having been there myself, I know it's confusing to decide how many routers or switches to buy, and what I need at the... Each one of those goes into the console port of one of your other lab devices, and you configure the access server to allow one-key access to each of the other devices in your practice lab. ... (You will need one additional device to make ISDN work in your lab, and we'll talk about that later in...

Computer Noise by Michael Arcand
Computer noise is normal ... somewhat. Then there is the dreaded silence of death ... You see, there are several moving parts inside of your desktop computer. These parts are going to make noise, so that part is normal. Your computer has at least two fans, one on the CPU (central processing... a drive that has to be repeatedly opened and closed before it will access a CD could indicate a problem with the CD or the drive. ... At this point it is imperative that you purchase a fan to replace the one that is going out.

Radio Ga-Ga: How to Listen to Internet Radio by Daniel Dwase
You will discover a few hundred radio stations from across the planet covering a number of different categories to choose from – rap, rock, ambient, electronica and reggae, to name but a few. These are called 'streams' , as they are digital transmissions despatched to your machine using the... Thousands of Channels If you want to access more channels than iTunes will support, Griffin Technology's radio 'Shark' is the perfect partner. ... It's a series of four curved lines that decrease to a point, and looks to some imaginations a little like a tree.

Will Linux Replace Microsoft Windows? by John Dixon
I've been working with computers since the mid-80s, initially using an Apple Macintosh and then moving to Microsoft Windows-based machines around 1991. The first version of Windows I used was version 2.x (I can't remember the exact number), which I seem to remember didn't do anything too special. ... After all, the fact that it is free has got to be a big selling point (not that is has to be sold, of course). ... The lack of hardware support is still the big sticking point, I think, to mass adoption of Linux.

Wireless Linux: Using the Linux Wireless ToolBox by Eric Meyer
First thing you need to do is purchase a wireless adapter card with a prism2 chipset. Just go to google and type in linux wireless adapters and track one down. If you are using a fairly good wireless distro it should pick up the card automatically. Ok, Now you have the card now what, you plugged... If you are monitoring certain access point you can type in iwlist accesspoints and get the listing of each nearby access point with the MAC address. ... Once you have located the access point you want to connect with it' time to start using another command called iwconfig.

Is Your Organization at Risk Without a Sufficient Backup and Recovery System? by Terri Roeslmeier
What if you lost physical access to your office? Could you be back in business at another location within a couple of days? If not, you should explore cost-effective, reliable backup choices. No one ever thinks it could happen to them. Yet, we have all seen and possibly experienced the... If remote access is possible how would that option work? ... The plan should encompass not only the steps that will be taken to restore the data, but how and where the employees will access the data. ... If your data is protected, even if you do not have access to your office and even if your server is...

Connect to the Internet Through Wifi by James Hunt
Wifi known as Wireless Fidelity allows a user to connect to the internet without using network cabling. Whether it’s from your bedroom, couch, indoors or outdoors data can be sent and received within the range of a wireless base station. Wifi uses 802.11a or 802.11b technologies to provide a... However, your connecting device will need to have a Wifi certified card (PC Card or PCMCIA card) and it will connect to other certified products such as a base station or access point. ... Their speeds are very comparable to 10baseT networks and allow for easy network access.

Wireless Computer Network Rentals: The New Technology Trend by John Beagle
Consider the convenience and added benefits of renting today's wireless technology. Wireless networks have a big advantage over wired networks, especially for short term projects where the internet and rental computers, printers and projectors are deployed. ... Rent Wireless Access Point (WAP) A wireless access point is a networking device that allows wireless-equipped computers and other devices to communicate with a wired network. ... Rent Wireless Print Servers A wireless print server connects a printer to the wireless network, allowing any computer on the network to wirelessly access...