The haphazard development of a home networking system can be as chaotic as a poorly planned road system. It is often the result of adding on new components to your home PCs without looking at the bigger picture.

If you have more than one PC at home sharing a common printer, or other peripherals, you are already at the beginning of Phrase 3 of Home Networking, according to author, Dr Larry Long.

Phase 1 and 2 involve introducing the first, then the second (or third) PC to your home, he says. By Phase 3, you start to share files, storage, printer and Internet resources and at Phase 4, you are on your way to creating an electronic home. Here is when you integrate the digital home entertainment with the home office and a cyberworld for the gamers in the family.
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Another received this week from Milton Goh for his Windows XP Pro notebook.

I have a home network with a wireless access point. I would like to surf via local area network or wirelessly using my notebook computer. My problem is that it seems that I can do the above, but only after reconfiguring the notebook network settings each time.
Is there a way to permenently configure my notebook with fixed settings? He is using Windows XP Pro edition

The wireless network connectivity will have priority if there is a already a detected access point in your wireless network settings. If you wish to intervene and not let the wireless connect automatically when your notebook is in range, the simplest thing to do is use a physical switch to switch on / off the wireless.

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Security begins at home.

D-Link has launched a new security camera that will ensure your home security.

The SecuriCam DCS-950G is a wirelass web camera. It does not need to be plugged into the computer, so you can install it in your living room or near your front door to catch the culprit who has been stealing your newspaper or watch for suspicious people outside your house.
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A poor and small country in Europe: Macedonia claims to be the first country of its size to have a broadband wireless network covering 95 per cent of its population. The network uses WiFi hot-spots to bring high-speed internet access to schools and villages, while mesh technology is used to blanket urban areas.

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Symantec claims that Norton Internet Security 2006 covers more than 370 million PCs worldwide. Packed in its yellow-black box, the contents includes Norton Antivirus, Personal Firewall, Privacy Control, Anti-Spam and Parental Control packages.

With spyware as much of a threat as viruses these days, it is more than a relief to see that the anti-spyware component comes packaged with the Anti-Virus as standard.

The Norton Internet Security 2006 CD-based installation was quick and easy, but required un-installing any other anti-virus software prior its own installation.
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Employee need to be aware of computer security issues and how to protect themselves when go online.

This useful book lists 20 things every employee should know about computer security. Ubiquitous features like emails, Internet surfing, password management and sending confidential attachments are some examples when security can be breached.
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Networking hardware has the reputation of almost always being serious, plain and boring when it comes to design and aesthetics. Afterall, once the network is all set up and ready to go, you don’t really bother to keep looking at it. Asus decided to go againts that particular idea with their Pocket 4-port Router WL-530G, a refreshing concept for networking hardware.

One of the Smaller Access Point

The WL-530G is quite literally one of the smallest wireless access points we’ve come across, with the exception of the ASUS WL-330. The WL-530G has the distinction of not only supporting 802.11g transfer rates of up to 54Mbps but also supporting both wireless and wired connections. A total of four Ethernet connectors are built into the WL-530G, an amazing feat considering the size of the unit. Of course, like all router hardware, external power is needed for operation, and as such the WL-530G makes use of power adapter. The adaptor is designed in such a way that you can swap out the connectors to suit the country you’re in, removing the need for travel adaptor. The adaptor accepts voltages from 110V to 240V, making it useble wordwide.
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