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Author:
Jason Bauder

Creating a wireless home network

Most people have more than one computer in their home and it is becoming absolutely essential to having all those computers hooked up to the internet. A wireless home network can get all the computers in your home connected to the internet plus much more. Only a few years ago it was necessary to run wires from every computer to an internet router to connect all computers in a home to the internet. Can you imagine how it looks like when you have three sets of computer wires running throughout your home? Many people even went as far as drilling holes in the wall to hide the wires. Now things have changed. Wireless networks are now reality.

Wireless networking runs via signals over the air. You no longer need any wires to hook all computers up to the internet. To quickly create a home network, choose one computer as your source computer and connect a wireless router. Then for each additional computer add a wireless card or adapter and that computer now can receive and send data to the internet as well as other computers in the network.

Wireless networking is very inexpensive and costs less than $100 to add each computer. You no longer have to worry about running wires or drilling holes and you can easily send files from one computer to another. Wireless networking is also very secure, so you don't have to worry about your information being picked up by spying parties.

About the author:



Jay is the web owner of http://www.dsl-in.com DSL, a website that provides information and resources on DSL, DSL Service, and DSL Service Providers. You can also visit his website at: http://www.dsl-service.us DSL Service

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