Setting Up AirPort Express Base Station For Wireless Music Streaming by Carlos Cabezas
Here’s your problem. You have a ton of music on your computer. Your computer speakers sound ok but music from your Itunes software would sound a lot better playing through your nice home stereo in the other room. If you run a cord all that way from your computer to your home stereo your house... You now need to have Windows XP connect to this new wireless network connection that you created if it does not do so automatically (near the clock in lower right hand corner right click on your wireless network adapter icon, choose view available Wireless Networks, and join the new wireless...

Wireless SqueezeBox 3 by Darren Taylor
Not so long ago we got up close and personal with the Sondigo Sirocco Wireless Audio bridge, while it was a great product for those looking to stream music from their PC to their home entertainment system, it lacked a few required elements and features. ... Not only does the SqueezeBox allow you to play your digitalized music collection through your stereo system using either wireless or ethernet connections, but you can also listen to internet radio, set alarms, display RSS feeds and use the SqueezeBox as a wireless bridge to easily connect non-wireless devices to your wireless network.

Wireless Routers: 10 1/2 Tips to Troubleshoot by Eric Meyer
Wireless Router trouble shooting for the Famously Frustrated 1. Open up internet explorer type in http://192.168.1.1 under password type admin1 and proceed to your router interface. Most people don’t even know how to go to their router interface. Linksys wireless routers all have default... Can’t acquire a network address means that you don’t have your wireless routers DHCP settings configured or your wireless adapters not configured correctly? ... Tips do not upgrade your wireless routers firmware via a wireless connection and don’t turn off the wireless router when it is in the middle...

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... Remember you will have to monitor your wireless network because you might have more dropped packets with AES if your firmware is not up to date on your access point or wireless adapter. ... Some wireless adapters may not support AES encryption so you need to take that into account when planning...

Benefits of Wireless Routers by Michael Sterios
As download speeds continue to increase a greater number of broadband users are downloading heavy content items such as entire films. This is because the time it takes to complete such tasks are shortened. It is also the case that several computers sharing the same broadband connection may... Routers usually come with several sockets for Ethernet cables which can be connected to your devices’ wireless network cards, should the need arise. ... Wireless routers also provide an extra layer of security against malicious programs such as viruses which can infect your computers via the Internet...

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... Since your wireless network is now invisible, you will have to configure your computers to connect to your wireless network using the new name. ... Therefore for example, if you run a business on your wireless network, have sensitive data on your computers such as credit card information, and...

Mobile Computing by Richard Romando
Mobile computing refers to the use of any kind of computer in a moving environment. The motion may be of the device itself, as in laptops, palmtops, wearable computers, and mobile phones; or it may refer to the dynamics of the computing process, as in digital cameras, podcasters and MP3 players. ... Another brilliant advancement in the field of wireless technologies is the Metropolitan Area Network, or MAN, which will allow vehicles and cell phones to remain in communication with each other forming a network probably much vaster than the internet.

Securing Your Wireless LAN by Jonathan Coupal
Introduction It has become common practice to deploy wireless networks for convenience applications requiring users to be mobile. Also many "road warriors" have Wi-Fi accounts that let them access the Internet and the corporate network from remote locations. ... · Isolating clients by preventing them from talking to one another on the wireless network is an option which prevents wireless hackers from attacking other users. ... With these new products and the standards they implement, your wireless network can be at least as secure as your wire-based network.

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... The Internet provided the impetus for most companies to adopt a network infrastructure. ... A printer attached directly to a computer via a parallel or USB cable does not comprise a network; it becomes a network if the printer and computer are both attached to a switch or router.

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... WiMax is designed for building a network infrastructure when the environment or distance is not favorable to a wired network. ... Think of a WiMax network as an ISP with out wires, with the signal providing your internet access to your business/ home.