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Digital Home DIY: Step-by-step guides that make home tech projects easy
Set up a wireless network
You have a number of choices when setting up your home wireless network, and a little planning helps to simplify things. We'll show you what gear you'll need, depending on what you want to do.
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Share an Internet connection
Does your family fight over time on the one Internet-enabled computer? A wireless network will bring harmony into your home--everyone can be connected at the same time, anywhere in the house, and you won't have to contend with any inconvenient or unsightly wiring.2
Share files and folders
You have three PCs in the house. Now, instead of passing around CDs, flash drives, and floppies, everyone can access the same photo and music files over the network. You can even set up permissions to keep prying eyes out of sensitive financial and legal information.3
Stream music to your stereo
Doesn't it seem like a waste to have all those MP3 files on your hard drive but to be able to listen to them only through your desktop's tinny speakers? With just a few components, you can wirelessly stream all that music to your stereo and hear your favorite tunes through real speakers.
What you say
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"wireless printing"
by spiderman41 (see profile)April 24, 2008
need help with wireless printing
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"I want my laptop to use cable modem of..."
by Lord Buckley (see profile)May 20, 2007
There are two of us and one cable connection. My computer is a laptop, and I want to surf the net at home and also to...
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"To network 2 computers on the same level"
by Tom Blakesley (see profile)May 17, 2007
My Computer is in a separate study to my wife's
PC in the dining room, I'm on a cable connection & hers isn't,...
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PC in the dining room, I'm on a cable connection & hers isn't,...
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