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. ... Network Configuration Whether the network signals travel through wires or through the air, network resources must still be shared so that other computers can access them. ... By assigning a name to the shared printer, the owner allows other computers on the network to access the printer by...

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 first step is to turn on encryption for your wireless router or access point.

Wireless Network Security: How to Use Kismet by Eric Meyer
Kismet is a wireless network detector / sniffer which can give you a vast amount of information about wireless networks. Wireless network security flaws are well documented but often very hard for the common person to understand. I will be showing you how to use kismet with out even having to... If you tab down to the network you are auditing and press “C”, Kismet will show you all the computers that are using that wireless access point / gateway. ... The Kismet columns will show the wireless networks SSID (Name), Type of device (Access point, gateway) Encryption or no Encryption, an IP...

Wireless Network Trouble Shooting by Eric Meyer
Wireless Network Trouble Shooting 1. Wireless Adapter – First check to see if your wireless adapter is on and working properly. If you are using a PCMICA wireless adapter ensure that the card is pressed completely in. If the wireless adapter card was not plugged in when you started your... What Wireless Network – Check the bottom right hand task bar to see if you are connected to a wireless network . ... You want to change your wireless adapter setting to choose Infrastructure access points only so you’re not connecting to rogue wireless access points .

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. ... Setup the wireless access/router point via a wired client. ... 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.

Always-On Networks Created with a Wireless Router by Troy Davies
If you're using a wireless network with Windows' built-in Internet Connection Sharing, you're probably quite happy with it -- but there's a problem. The problem is this: the computer the modem is connected to needs to be turned on before any of the other computers can get Internet access! ... A wireless router is basically a small, low-powered computer dedicated to nothing but providing Internet access to your wireless network. ... Choosing a Wireless Router When you're choosing a wireless router, you should consider the same things as you would with any other wireless equipment: range,...

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. ... It was planned to provide wireless security by protecting the data while it travels from one point to the other. ... It is intentionally planned to be use for wireless devices but is now often used for Internet access. ... These standards are generally in used around the world, and allow users that have Wifi capable device, like a laptop...

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... Unlike a Wifi clients who have to kind of fight to stay associated with a given access point; WiMax will only have to perform this hand shake at the MAC level the first time they access the network. ... WiMax base stations will have the ability to provide approximately 60 businesses with T1...

Which is the Best Wireless Router? by Paul Cris
A wireless network is incomplete without a router. The router connects to the broadband connection and in turn the access point in the router enables your laptop or computer to connect with the Internet. There are many wireless routers available in the market and to label one of them as the best... After extensive research we found that the Belkin Wireless Pre-N router is the best in the wireless router category. ... But when we take the speed of transmission of the data, the range it transmits and the ease of use, there are not many that can compete with each other in the wireless router...

E-mail Privacy Mythology by Tom Pitts
Many people believe that e-mail privacy is inherent and guaranteed, psychologically equating it with the postal system. E-mail systems were a crucial tool in creating the Internet, and actually predate the Internet in existence. While the ability to access your personal e-mail messages is... You must be aware if using a wireless network if the network is encrypted. ... If the network is not properly encrypted any e-mail you send or receive is accessible to any skilled person within the wireless signal range.