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Your Home Computers – Network Them All
In today’s average home there is more than one computer in the house and yet you don’t have a home network. You need to get on it and network them all. There probably are as many individual printers and other peripheral devices scattered amongst your computers. As a matter of fact, your family is constantly running from computer to computer sharing a file of the, trying to get a file of that and in between trying to print just right. Odd thought now; how about connecting them all together and create a home network? What a concept there.
In all likeliness’ you have internet to your home and possibly all of your home computers (and work computers as well when they are there) connect to the internet through your internet wireless router or if your house is prewired for cat5 then you have an in wall connection to your router. If all of these conditions already exist in your household in regards to your computers you are already 8/10s of the way there of having a home network.
Wireless Networking and Security
Although Wireless Networking has great benefits, which are undoubtedly, there are also some drawbacks, which should be considered. Drawbacks such as Electromagnetic interferences, a slower transfer speed then wired Networks and diverse security concerns. This paper will focus on Wireless Networks and the security concern that we have or should have when implementing such technology.
As a general note there are two types of wireless computer networks.