Teach Yourself Visually Wireless Networking

This book shows readers how to link their PCs or connect to the Internet without wires, enabling them to create a small office or home network without the expense and hassle of stringing cable or paying a network administrator. It provides a comprehensive yet concise visual guide to setting up, configuring, using, and maintaining a wireless network. It focuses specifically on the popular 802.11b wireless networking standard, better known as Wi-Fi, which has 11Mbps throughput and lets users roam 300 feet inside and 1,500 feet outdoors. It will appeal to a growing market: analyst firm Yankee Group predicts there will be more than five million users of public Wi-Fi access points by 2007 up from only 30,000 in 2002. This book is aimed at the increasing numbers of mobile workers have a growing need for information about wireless networking.