Part 7 Setting Up a Wireless Home Network
A network enables you to navigate, listen, watch, print, or copy files between computers and other networked devices. Networks consist of computers and hubs (devices that propagate the network). Networks can be connected with wires or wirelessly. Most wireless connections use the Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) standard.
There are many reasons to consider setting up a wireless home network. The obvious one is that you probably don’t have a home prewired with Ethernet. The best reason to have a wireless home network is because you can use computers anywhere the wireless signal reaches.
The AirPort Base Station was the first popular network hub to use radio frequency (RF) signals to share computer data. There ...
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