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Summary: Great Book
Review: Don't be fooled by the one negative review here..this is a great book for home networking. The typo (from Gigabit to Gigabyte) doesn't change the wonderdful content of this book and how EASY it makes it to create a home network. This book has won praise all over the place.
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Summary: Strong on basics, not enough on broadband
Review: I started my home network the same way that I built my computer. I ordered some parts off the Net and then started to figure out what to do with them. This approach got me into some trouble. Windows troubleshooters helped quite a bit but I wasn't fully operational till I bought "This Wired Home" and went step by step. I would have saved time by starting out buying the book, then using the guides to order the parts. This book goes into everything I intended to do with a home network and gave me some ideas for things I had not thought of. Really worth the effort and price. I trust the second ed. is even better.
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Summary: Alan Neibauer knows you're not a "dummy"
Review: I started my home network the same way that I built my computer. I ordered some parts off the Net and then started to figure out what to do with them. This approach got me into some trouble. Windows troubleshooters helped quite a bit but I wasn't fully operational till I bought "This Wired Home" and went step by step. I would have saved time by starting out buying the book, then using the guides to order the parts. This book goes into everything I intended to do with a home network and gave me some ideas for things I had not thought of. Really worth the effort and price. I trust the second ed. is even better.
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Summary: Strong on basics, not enough on broadband
Review: If you want to interconnect all your computers and printers this book explains all the basics you will need. But if you want DSL there is not enough - in fact there's really nothing. It also does not explain any details about phone line complexities if you want to link your home computers over your phone lines, e.g. how to also use a modem or phone line DSL over the same system.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: In "This Wired Home", Alan Neibauer provides a pragmatic view of home networking. His text covers topics from various types of hardware involved, to the configuration of sofware utilities and applications used for an assortment of network communication services.If I had to knock the book, it would be for a lack of coverage on cable fabrication. If you're going to be fishing cable through walls, chances are you're not going to be using prefabricated cables with connectors already attached. I would have liked to have seen better coverage of tools and methods used for crimping RJ-45 connectors onto Cat 5 cabling, etc. The material is well written, and is geared very much toward the novice network user. Experienced users will find this book to be a quick, easy read.
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Summary: An excellent source of information on home networking.
Review: In "This Wired Home", Alan Neibauer provides a pragmatic view of home networking. His text covers topics from various types of hardware involved, to the configuration of sofware utilities and applications used for an assortment of network communication services. If I had to knock the book, it would be for a lack of coverage on cable fabrication. If you're going to be fishing cable through walls, chances are you're not going to be using prefabricated cables with connectors already attached. I would have liked to have seen better coverage of tools and methods used for crimping RJ-45 connectors onto Cat 5 cabling, etc. The material is well written, and is geared very much toward the novice network user. Experienced users will find this book to be a quick, easy read.
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Summary: Good discussion of the basics
Review: Most Microsoft publications are either trivially simple or opaque. Not this one. Neibauer clearly discusses the essentials of home/small business networking. He includes discussions of a lot of material that I have been unable to find elsewhere.
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Summary: Good discussion of the basics
Review: Most Microsoft publications are either trivially simple or opaque. Not this one. Neibauer clearly discusses the essentials of home/small business networking. He includes discussions of a lot of material that I have been unable to find elsewhere.
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Summary: There's enough here to get you through
Review: Strangely enough, this book does not deal with Windows NT 4.0 workstation, but there is enough information you can extract to restore an NT nework which has stopped working for no obvious reasons. Save yourself a couple of hundred dollars on a network expert, fix it yourself, and get tiny but invaluable facts about setting up the TCP/IP and subnet mask fields for the next time. My surmise is that an upgrade in Service Pack disrupted the settings. A NIC card with self-diagnostics really helps too - it could have had more specific info on this area. The book also dwells too long on the advantages of a network over none - you would assume that if you would consider buying this book, that you already knew that.
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Summary: absolute garbage and lack of knowledge by author
Review: The author has made so many misqueues, there is no way that they were accidental. Gigabyte Ethernet? That's one heck of an Ethernet signal! I wish I had one of those. Win98 or ME can't be servers? Even in a workgroup? Bah! Don't waste your time here folks. Move along, there is nothing to see here.
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