Wireless Network Setup by Walter Heron
The best thing about a wireless network is exactly that, its wireless! If you have a laptop or even a second desktop pc in the home, installing a wireless network is a great idea. How about checking your emails, chatting with online friends, doing some shopping or just surfing the net all from a... A wireless network’s internet connection is 'always on' meaning that in order to connect to the internet you just open the browser and your homepage is there. ... The use of a logging on or connection dialog box is no longer necessary.This makes accessing the internet much more convenient.

Moving Business Locations And IT Considerations by John Vizaniaris
Most businesses at some point will move to a new location. Whether it is because they've outgrown their current space or for leasing purposes. It is a very stressful time and the one thing that always gets overlooked is their business network. The assumption is that the computers will get moved... And on some occasions the business will tell them that they want to space to be wired with Cat 5 cabling for either phone or data or both. ... With a new location comes a new Internet provider, new IP addresses, wiring setup and the addition of more computers.

Wireless Notebooks: What You Need To Know About Going Wireless! by Titus Hoskins
It's not exactly breaking news that our world is becoming increasingly wireless. Many of our daily activities that once needed a wired connection can now be done wirelessly! The cell phone craze was probably the first revolution that seemingly happened overnight. ... It has or will turn the Internet into a truly wireless system that's devoid of any cables or lines. ... It will be everywhere -- no space within our biosphere will be without the Internet very soon. ... But this is enough bandwidth for high speed Internet, gaming and most file transfers.

Freedom of Speech on the Internet by Fred Hanster
Once upon a time, the world was made up of many, many communities that each had different opinions about free speech. Some allowed it, some prohibited it, and some operated in vast grey areas depending on what their particular dictionaries defined as freedom of speech. ... In the end, even if you ban an internet company from coming in and setting up cable modems and DSL connections, your citizens could get cell phones and pay to connect their computers to the internet. ... Many phone companies operate overseas, and these companies can allow you to dial in to the internet, even if you can’t...

What You Need to Know About Networking by Alex Lakatos
Because networking is a relatively young science, it borrows language from other disciplines. Many networking terms come from the realm of physical transportation—terms such as bridge, hub, port, routing, and switching. That borrowing is apt. Just as the transportation revolution, and especially... It's analogous to an old-fashioned office phone: Switching is like dialing a four digit extension to reach someone in your building, while routing is like dialing 9 to get an outside line, and then dialing a seven- or ten-digit phone number.

WiMAx VS Wifi by Eric Meyer
WiMax (802.16) is is a newer standard of wireless networking designed to provide the last mile of high speed internet access to the end user. Some people would call Wimax WiFi on steroids but this would be to broad of an assessment. Wifi was and still will be used in LAN environments for... African countries are now going to start deploying WiMax networks instead of cell phone networks. ... WiMax can operate right next to cell phone towers with no interference. ... WiMax base stations will have the ability to provide approximately 60 businesses with T1 access and hundreds of homes...

Cisco CCNA Exam Tutorial: How To Spend Your Study Time by Chris Bryant
To pass the CCNA exam, you've got to create a study plan. Part of that plan is scheduling your study time, and making that study time count. You’ve scheduled your exam you’ve created a document to track your study time you’ve planned exactly when you’re going to study. ... Studies show that while a single phone call causes an 11-minute interruption on average, it takes well over 20 minutes to get back to what you were doing with the proper mental focus. ... If you spend any time on CCNA Internet forums, you’ll see discussion after discussion about these exam questions.

Mobile Computing Networks by Richard Romando
Using mobile computers when in transit implies mobile computing. This is effectuated by using wireless technologies such as LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi, GPRS, etc. LAN refers to Local Area Networking. This is not a very mobile technology, as it restricts the area of its reach. ... GPRS networks coupled with EDGE or Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution provide fast Internet connection on cell phones. ... They use wireless technologies such as GSM, CDMA, WLL, GPRS, EDGE, 3G etc. ... Cell phones are currently the most commonly used mobile computing devices on the planet.

Laptop Security -Where'd My Laptop Go? by Steve Freedman
Laptops are lovely. They are convenient, mobile, powerful and prestigious. They are also thief magnets. Over 400,000 laptops disappear each year, leaving their owners wondering where they went, what is happening with their data and what to do next. Some of the laptops are just lost – left in... Hopefully, you have your name and phone number on it somewhere, so it can be returned to you if it was just left in a cab. ... There are cable locks that can be attached to an immovable object to make it more difficult to just pick up the laptop and walk away.

Computer Projector Rentals: A Guide by Marcus Peterson
Any meeting or conference requires a computer to handle inputs like data, graphics, video and audio. Computer as a multimedia application has properties comparable to standalone players for VCD or DVD. With the integration of IT and the Internet into the audio visual industry, computers have... They can be booked by phone or online. ... The important factors an event manager must consider before choosing the a/v system are the room size, lighting conditions, the inputs that will be displayed, the resolution and clarity of the visual images and screen size.