Remote Access - Stay Connected Anywhere by Kriss Standke
With today's active lifestyle and constant on the go business style, it's important to stay connected to your computer or network. Remote Access is just that, the ability to stay connected where ever you are. With Remote Access Software, you can easily access your netowrk from your home, your... Remote Access Software along with an Internet connection gives the user complete access to their home computer or Corporqate Network. ... The dedicatid fixed line is a line that connects directly to the corporate network on one end and at the other end to your home computer or laptop.

How IP-based Video Surveillance Works -- Way Beyond Analog by Lucy P. Roberts
When you’re shopping around for an IP-based video surveillance system, you will need to be particularly cautious about what exactly you’re looking at and what the individual terms mean. How IP-based video surveillance works is open to interpretation as far as some video surveillance and security... The basics of IP-based surveillance A digital camera “views” the scene in front of it, broadcasts the video images as a digitized signal over a LAN line (Local Area Network) where it’s then transmitted to a computer or server.

Personal Wireless Networking by Jason Keno
If you've got a wireless network for your computers already, well, you might get a bit excited about what I'm going to say next. How would you feel if your PDA, your mobile phone, your mp3 player and almost everything else you connect to your computer could be wireless too? ... The idea is that, in the future, we'll all have laptop computers with their batteries charged and no more need to connect any wires to them at all -- you just place your Bluetooth device near the computer, and the computer sees it and can use it straightaway.

Cut The Wires by John Geiger
How often do you see someone sitting in an airport lounge or coffee shop working on a laptop computer? Sure they could be playing solitaire, but the odds are increasing that they are corresponding via e-mail, sending a report back to the home office, or downloading a presentation for their next... A wireless card or “adapter” for your laptop computer(s). ... Without security measures active, your network is accessible by anyone with a Wi-Fi capable device and within range (typically up to a couple hundred feet).

Building Computers: A Short History Lesson by Michael Quarles
In only a few years, the task of building your own computer has gone through remarkable changes, almost entirely for the good. It’s less complicated, and far less prone to the devilish sort of problems presented by certain steps in the process. One of the most notable improvements has to do with... Building a computer required a lot more circuit cards back then. ... Once, all of those different ports you see on the back of your computer had to be connected to the motherboard by ribbon cables. ... You had to have a sound card, modem, network card, capture card, in short, a card for about...

Introduction Of Computer by Lalit Bansal
Internet and Networks Computer network is a group of computers linked together, so that they can share information and resources. Internet is “network of networks”. It can also be described as information highway. It is the world’s largest network of computers. ... Characteristics of clients software: An application program that performs computations locally is needed temporarily for remote access is invoked directly by a user executes only for one session runs locally on users computer can access multiple services doesn’t require special hardware.

Wireless Router & Security: A Step-by-Step Guide by Brian Medini
Setting up a wireless router is easy. Essentially you turn your cable or DSL modem off and your wireless router on. Then, you connect the router to the modem with a cable, and turn the modem back on. You are more or less done. The wireless network wizard on your computer will pick up the router... Therefore, changing the network name only helps partially to secure your network. ... Malicious intruders can even hop on to your internal network; access your hard drives; and, steal, edit, or delete files on your computer.

Wireless is Great, but How Do You Make It SAFE? by Steve Freedman
It’s common nowadays to see people sitting in a park and computing, or at their local Starbucks, tapping away on their keyboards. At home, people are taking advantage of the freedom from cables and wires that a wireless network brings. But along with that freedom come dangers. ... All your wireless computers should use MAC Addressing MAC (Media Accessing Control NOT a MacIntosh computer) is an unique hardware address you should assign to your wireless computers so that your Wireless Access Point will only allow these specific computers to connect to your wireless network.

Back To The Basics: Communication Devices by Deb Jensen
Since today's communication technology can be confusing for many people, Genesis Global, Inc. wants to go back to the basics and take a brief look at the various types of communication channels available. This article addresses eight basic factors which affect data transmission: "transmission... By expanding your technical vocabulary, you will be able to make more informed decisions on network hardware and network peripherals. ... Multipoint Point-to-Point: “A point-to-point line directly connects the sending and receiving devices, such as a terminal with a central computer.” This method...

External Hard Drives by Kent Pinkerton
The trend with technology seems to be going small and mobile. You would probably think that is where the manufacturers got the idea of making external hard drives. These are hard disk drives (HDD) that are literally placed outside of the computer case. ... This device is connected directly to you network so you do not need to have a host computer to access the data in it. ... There are external HDD that are built to be external, meaning the HDD has built-in cables that allow you to interface with your computer.