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Home Networking Annoyances How to Fix the Most Annoying Things About Your Home Network

By Kathy Ivens
January 2005
Pages: 224
Series: Annoyances
ISBN 10: 0-596-00808-2 | ISBN 13: 9780596008086

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Need a cure for the headaches associated with running a home network? This book tackles all the common annoyances your network dishes up--whether it's wired or wireless. With a friendly, off-the-cuff approach, this book guides you safely through common home networking glitches, including file sharing, printing, security, and more. Take a stand against annoyances now: just as the bestselling PC Annoyances brought peace and happiness to PC users everywhere, Home Networking Annoyances is your ticket to serenity.
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The beauty of a home network is that it can make life so easy--what could be better than sharing an Internet connection so that everyone can be online at the same time? With home networking you can move files from one computer to another, share resources, print to a single printer or multiple printers from any computer in the house, and IM the kids when they're holed up in their rooms. And the downside? Anyone who's ever had to troubleshoot a network glitch doesn't need to ask that question. The simple words, "Why can't I print? Why can't I get to the Internet? Why does my computer say 'Access Denied' today, when it worked fine yesterday?" are enough to send the home network administrator running for cover. And the concept of "network security" can keep the soundest sleeper tossing and turning all night. Currently, more than 8 million homes in the US have installed a network of some kind, and within five years, that number is expected to jump to 37 million. This speaks to the availability of easy-to-install home networking products. Unfortunately, there's also a glut of potential headaches that can occur after installation (and during, sometimes) with no warning label on the box saying, "This product sure to cause annoyances." But help is here. Home Networking Annoyances will ease the headaches and annoyances of anyone who runs a home network. This book tackles all the common annoyances associated with running your network--whether it's wired or wireless, or a combination thereof. Its friendly, off-the-cuff approach will put you in a position of power over those home networking glitches, including file sharing, printing, cabling, security, and much more. You'll find dozens of on-target tips, workarounds, and fixes that will help you improve your home networking experience in every way possible. Whether you're a mainstream business user or a home user with newly installed network hardware, you've probably had your patience tested by frustrating network maintenance issues. Take a stand against annoyances now: just as the bestselling PC Annoyances brought peace and happiness to PC users everywhere, Home Networking Annoyances is your ticket to serenity.

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First Edition: January 2005
Series: Annoyances
ISBN: 0-596-00808-2
Pages: 224

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"I have found the problems (or Annoyances, as the author labels them) and the solutions easy-to-read as they are written in plain English for most non-tech readers."
--Don Thompson, The Digital Viking, Twin Cities PC User Group, June 2005

"Kathy Ivens' Home Networking Annoyances covers all possible home networking problems, from hardware and wireless problems to fighting worms, hackers, and more. From problems in saving database files and communications to issues revolving around creating a mapped drive, Home Networking Annoyances is packed with common problems and solutions in a question/answer format lending to easy look-up."
--James Cox, Midwest Book Review, May 2005

"A topic as dry as setting up, maintaining and troubleshooting a home network needs a lively style to keep from sliding into tech manual territory, and author Kathy Ivens delivers the goods with Home Networking Annoyances...Covering everything from adding mailboxes, disabling the Windows XP firewall, configuring network adapters and routers, running cable between multiple floors of the house and configuring older computers to find a newer printer, Home Networking Annoyances covers it all."
--"HUB: Digital Living," April 2005

"For anyone at home who has to keep a network running smoothly, or who wants to expand, then this is certainly a good book to have around. Recommended."
--TechBookReport.com, March 2005

"For those of us who leave the help-desk access at the office, and no longer have a teenager at home, Kathy Ivens' book is a godsend. The information is divided in a sensible manner..If you have more than one computer at home, you can use them more effectively in a home network, and you will need this book—either that, or an IT tech living in the basement."
--Blogcritics.org, February 2005

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