Chapter 10. How Home Networks Work
In today’s world, where many households have more than one computer, home networks have become commonplace. Home networks are primarily used to allow multiple computers to share a broadband Internet connection, but also allow those computers to share a printer and exchange files among each other.
The most common networks you’ll find at home are wireless networks based on the 802.11 family of protocols called Wi-Fi. (For more details about how Wi-Fi works, see Chapter 9 “How Wireless Connections and WiFi Work.”)
Wireless networks, although they got their start in the business world, are now more commonly ...
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