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Home Wireless Network How to

Almost every family has a home network and a prerequisite is if it could be wireless, the less cables needed the better. One of the advantages of wireless networks is the lack of cables. But with that there are a lot of disadvantages, not having cables makes it easier for hackers to get into your home network and also since the signal is wireless it has to go through walls etc.

 

 

  1. Placement: First of all try and find a place in the middle of your home where you can place the wireless gateway. Also make sure that the device is not near a corner because that limits the coverage. Don’t get discouraged if you can’t find a suitable place just make sure the device is away from any electrical equipment like microwaves, mobile phones and sometimes power plugs, all these can affect reception. There are other ways you can improve your home wireless network coverage which I won’t be mentioning in this article.
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Setting Up Home Networks

Learn how to set up a wireless home network.

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Wireless Network Security

In our Business and Communications Studies class, myself and some friends decide to make a small project on the dangers of having a wireless network openly in your house/school/workplace/anywhere.

It soon elevated into a short video with a starring role played by Michael. However his ’scene’ of gaiety is really only funny if you know him… Partially because at any given moment of time at school or home, he is laughed and joked at continually for his incompetence and funny traits.

Watch the movie and see what I’m on about. (You will know which one is Michael)

I didn’t realise till I watched it myself on YouTube that you cannot actually read the writing in the warning boxes as the quality has been toned down.

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How to Secure Your Wireless Network

http://live.pirillo.com – One community member wrote: “After years of mistrust about wireless networks and creative use of Ethernet cabling I have now adopted a wireless network in my home for a laptop to access anywhere in the house. I have over the past week, done a lot of research and have some tips the community might want to consider in relation to the setup and/or use of wireless networks.”

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