Wireless Adpaters: Installing, WPA2 and Advanced Features by Eric Meyer
You will never meet that 108mbps that most wireless routers are saying to have but to come close you will have to purchase a wireless adapter from the same manufacture. Installing your wireless adapter 1. Stick your adapter into your PCIMICA slot on your laptop. ... This is bad because if you connect to a network called "Linksys" you will be connecting to a unsecured network because this is the default SSID of alll Linksys wireless routers. ... Connecting to wireless networks can be dangerous because they could be a hackers rogue access point meant to collect password info on you.

Local Area Networks - Computer Networking by Michael Cooper
Local Area Networks also called LANs have been a major player in industrialization of computers. In the past 20 or so years the worlds industry has be invaded with new computer technology. It has made such an impact on the way we do business that it has become essential with an ever-growing need... The LAN enables stations to communicate directly using a common physical medium on a point-to-point basis without any intermediate switching node being required. ... There is always need for an access sublayer in order to arbitrate to access to the shared medium.

Home Networking by Bob Rankin
Setting up Your Home Network As society and technology change, it's becoming common for homes to have more than one computer. When an existing computer is a few years old, parents will often take advantage of today's lower prices, purchase a new computer, and pass the old one down to the kids. ... By assigning a name to the shared printer, the owner allows other computers on the network to access the printer by browsing using their Network Neighborhood (or My Network Places) icons. ... Network Configuration Whether the network signals travel through wires or through the air, network...

Local vs. Network Diagnostics by Sarah Lake
Obviously anyone who maintains PCs, whether local or on a network, is bound to be familiar with the demands of getting the offending machine back up and running as quickly as possible! Most have experienced the frustration of trying to pin point the problem, which could even boil down to being... The price they pay is that they cannot directly access the hardware and get the same accurate information available to MicroScope, and if used over a network they are even further removed from every piece of hardware, with the possible exception of the network card.

Wireless Security Basics by Benjamin Hargis
Wireless networks using 802.11 have made it simple to connect multiple devices to your home network.This can also make your data availiable anywhere, even outside your home.To set this up all you need is a broadband connection connected to a wireless router or a WAP Wireless Access Point. ... Diasble broadcasting so people cannot you your wireless network. ... Use encryption to protect your network. ... WEP or Wireless Encryption Protocol is not secure, I have cracked my own network with a Linux machine running Kismet.

Get Connected To Wi-Fi by Robert Thatcher
Wi-Fi, short for wireless fidelity refers to a set of wireless networking technologies more specifically referred to as any type of 802.11 network, 802.11b and 802.11a, dual band. The word Wi-Fi was built by an organization called the Wi-Fi Alliance. ... These standards are generally in used around the world, and allow users that have Wifi capable device, like a laptop or PDA to connect anywhere there is available Wi-Fi access point. ... It was planned to provide wireless security by protecting the data while it travels from one point to the other.

Wireless Encryption and Security Threats by Troy Davies
The following are the items most often at risk. * Thieves can steal your sensitive personal and business data. * Harmful viruses and worms can infiltrate your network, even evading your anti-virus software. * Hackers can hijack your Wi-Fi to spam or attack others - and you could be liable. ... You'll still need to turn on encryption at the wireless router or access point, but once you've done that you can set up encryption as you set up the network using the Wireless Network Setup Wizard. ... The exact method for this will vary between devices, but you can usually do it by visiting the...

Peer 2 Peer Networks & Your Businesses Risks by Brian Wilson
As most of us had heard of p2p networks and services like Kazza and limewire what we don’t think about is that businesses are responsible for the activities on there networks. When an employee, vendor, or customer is on your businesses network do you know what they are doing? ... Impose network policies for all users and keep all you network protection software up to date (Anti-virus, Spyware, Ad blockers). ... Well for businesses like Hotels, Internet Café’s, or Public Access Points you are at highest risk for users to abuse you network.

Wireless Network Encryption Standards by Eric Meyer
WEP – Is the first and lowest standard for wireless security. You will hear security experts say that WEP can be cracked in 5 minutes; this is true, only once you have sniffed enough network traffic for weak IV’s. Collecting enough wireless traffic will take at least a couple hours under... WPA also helps wireless clients roam from access point to access point while working in an enterprise environment more efficiently. ... WPA2 – Further improves upon the ability for the wireless client to roam from access point to access point.

Setting Up and Securing Your Wireless Network by Herman T. Lee
There are more and more individuals opting to work from home than ever before. The advantages to this are many including avoiding the morning and evening rush hours, being able to spend time with your kids and significant other, and doing everything on your own time. ... Enable 128-bit Wired Equivalency Privacy (WEP) encryption on both your access point and network card. ... Enable firewall on the network router/access point with demilitarized zone function disabled. ... Update router and access point firmware as updates become available.