Wireless networking has been the defacto standard for home networking for a year or two now. Most consumer wireless routers these days do more or less the same thing in terms of their basic operations, and in many cases they use almost identical hardware to archive this. That’s not to say they’re all the same, some AP’s have proprietary speed enhancements using more expensive chipsets, and some have special antenna configurations to allow for stronger signals in more remote areas of a house. The question you need to ask when buying wireless devices is whether or not you really need such things, and for most people the answer is “not really”.

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There are more and more individuals opting to work from home than ever before.

The advantages to this are many including avoiding the morning and evening rush hours, being able to spend time with your kids and significant other, and doing everything on your own time. Though the pitfalls are many, the one that I will be focusing on in this article is that of setting up a secure wireless network for your home based business. Right now somewhere out there, there is someone with a receiver waiting to pick up on an unsuspecting person’s wireless local area network. Their hope is to garner some sensitive information that may lead to identity theft, and stolen proprietary business information.

Most businesses owners are not technically inclined, though they may be power users, in general security settings is not one of the first things they want to mess around with in their day to day operations. This makes most wireless LANs a great target for information predators.
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No dual-monitor support on your graphics card? No problem. The new MaxiVista software extends your Desktop display to a laptop or any other PC via Ethernet or wireless LAN. A virtual VGA driver on the host machine and viewers on the client let you drag a window off of one display edge and on to a second or third PC. Now you can take that travel laptop out of the case and make it a second monitor at home.

Kyocera Wireless’s new KR1 Mobile Router turns a single wireless EvDO (Evolution Data Only or Evolution Data Optimized) broadband Internet connection into an 802.11g Wi-Fi hotspot. Simply plug an EvDO PC Card into the router’s PC Card slot, and your Wi-Fi access point is good to go. The mobile router also has four ethernet ports.
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The easiest way to monitor your home or office’s wireless network is to use the tools built into the operating system. The cool thing about the tools built into Windows XP is that you don’t have to do anything. Just turn on your PC and the operating system and wireless networking subsystem do the work for you, searching out new networks and determining some basic facts about them for you.

Windows XP uses a system called Wireless Zero Configuration to find, evaluate, and associate with wireless networks. Anytime wireless networks are within range and can be seen by the wireless card(s) in your PC, Windows knows it - and you can see these available networks with just a few simple steps.
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Anyone who relies on wireless networking will be aware that the strength of a wireless signal varies wildly depending on how far you are from the base station and what stands between it and your PCs. If, for example, the walls are particularly thick, or there’s a metal structure, or large piece of furniture between you and the base station, you will see your signal fall to weak or non-existent.

Fortunately, D-Link has recognised this problem and come up with a device that promises to solve the problem. The DWL-G710 Wireless Range Extender is designed to extend the range of a wireless network, providing improved coverage across your home or office.
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Pipe Windows Media Player tunes directly into your living room with the D-Link DSM-120. Compliant with Microsoft’s Windows Media Connect standard, this device uses 802.11b/g Wi-Fi to wirelessly play MP3 and WMA tracks that reside on your PC’s hard drive. The DSM-120 also accepts additional storage via a USB port or an optional internal 2.5-inch hard drive.