Anywhere Computing with Laptops: Making Mobile Easier

Chapter 12. Buying a Wi-Fi Access Point or Router

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Understanding network hardware

• Wireless networking kits

• Choosing a Wi-Fi access point

• Combo wire line—Wi-Fi routers

Perhaps you've used your laptop with Intel Centrino mobile technology on the road and have seen how great wireless and Wi-Fi are. It's also okay if you haven't. (Maybe you don't like to travel.) In any case, you are ready to “unwire” your home or small office by adding a wireless Wi-Fi network you can use with your Centrino laptop and other devices that have been enabled for Wi-Fi.

You'll find that it's very easy to create a Wi-Fi network from scratch (or to add Wi-Fi to an existing Ethernet network).

This chapter gets you started building your own Wi-Fi network. There ...