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Written by David Noel-Davies
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As
the Internet and the World Wide Web have exploded into our culture and are
replacing other media forms for people to find news, weather, sports, recipes,
yellow pages and a million other things, the new struggle is not only for time
on the computer at home, but for time on the Internet connection.
The
hardware and software vendors have come forth with a variety of solutions
allowing home users to share one Internet connection among two or more
computers. They all have one thing in common though- the computers must somehow
be networked.
To
connect your computers together has traditionally involved having some physical
medium running between them. It could be phone wire, coaxial cable or the
ubiquitous CAT5 cable. Recently hardware has been introduced that even lets home
users network computers through the electrical wiring. But, one of the easiest
and least messy ways to network computers throughout your home is to use
wireless technology.
It
is a fairly simple setup. The Internet connection comes in from your provider
and is connected to a wireless access point or router which broadcasts the
signal. You connect wireless antenna network cards to your computers to receive
that signal and talk back to the wireless access point and you are in business.
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Written by David Noel-Davies
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Network-based intrusion-detection systems (IDS) are an integral component of a layered IT security strategy. As October is National Cyber Awareness Month, if your overall security system doesn't include network-based intrusion detection, now is an excellent time to consider implementing an IDS package. |
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Written by David Noel-Davies
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A Local Area Network
(LAN) has been an essential tool for
business computing for many years, and great
fun for gaming for not quite so long. And
setting up a basic small LAN is now a very
easy task. But networking catalogues are
full of bridges and switches and hubs and
routers, making it hard for the beginner to
figure out what's going on. What do you
need, and what do you not?
This Web page will tell
you. The first half is the stuff you need to
know to knock together a basic Windows
network for playing games or ordinary small
business use. It tells you how the common
kinds of Ethernet differ, and what to do to
make your network work and keep it working.
After that, there's the more technical
information for people who are working with
larger networks, or are just curious.
Jump to the technical
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