Wireless Home Networking Simplified

Wireless Home Networking Simplified

• The full-color, fully illustrated, simple guide to wireless home networking
• Step-by-step instructions: Plan, install, secure, optimize, and troubleshoot your wireless network
• Discover all the fun things you can do with your wireless network

Jim Doherty

Neil Anderson

Using today’s wireless networks, you can save money, become more productive, and even have more fun! Now, there’s an easy, fully illustrated step-by-step guide to wireless networking for your home:Wireless Home Networking Simplified.

This plain-English guide teaches you everything you need to know to set up a wireless network at home, even if you do not have a technical background. You’ll find simple, easy-to-follow guidance on selecting the right equipment, installing your network devices properly, connecting to the Internet, safeguarding your information, fixing problems, and much more.

• Understand how wireless home networks work
• Compare today’s wireless standards, and choose the right one for you

• Design your wireless network for maximum convenience, reliability, and simplicity
• Secure your network, step by step–and keep it secure
• Troubleshoot failed connections, poor coverage, and slow performance
• Temporarily allow guests onto your network without exposing your data
• Use your network to listen to music, view video, and play video games anywhere in your home
• Preview and prepare for tomorrow’s wireless technologies

Wireless Home Networking Simplified cuts through the confusion, demystifies the technologies, and helps you make the most of wireless… quickly, simply, painlessly.

This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press®, the only authorized publisher for Cisco Systems®.

Category: Networking

Covers: Home Networking

Jim Doherty is the vice president of marketing at CipherOptics, where he leads the outbound marketing

teams. Prior to joining the CipherOptics team Jim held leadership positions with Symbol

Technologies and Cisco. Jim has more than 15 years of technical marketing and engineering experience

and has led various marketing campaigns for IP telephony, routing and switching, and network

security solutions. Jim is the coauthor of theNetworking Simplified series of books published by

Cisco Press. Jim is a former Marine Corps sergeant; he holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering

from N.C. State University and an M.B.A. degree from Duke University.

Neil Anderson is the senior manager of enterprise systems engineering with Cisco. Neil has more

than 20 years of broad engineering experience including public telephone systems, mobile phone

systems, Internet, and home networking. At Cisco, Neil’s focus is on large corporate customers in the

areas of routing and switching, wireless, security, and IP communications. Neil is the coauthor of the

Networking Simplified series of books includingHome Networking Simplified, Home Network

Security Simplified, and Internet Phone Services Simplified. Neil holds a B.S. degree in computer

science.