Home networking is not just for people with home-based business. With a home network, you can Start project on one computer and finish on the other Connect desktop and laptop computers so you can take your work with your printer sharing and Internet access connections Control to Manage file security to protect all the computers on the network And on top of all that, you can become a network administrator! If you have more than one computer in your home, Kathy Ivens, author of Home Networking For Dummies, Third Edition, believe it only makes sense for you to have a home network. But as impressive as "home network" sounds, installing and maintaining one doesn t have that? To be complicated? In the For Dummies style directly, Kathy shows you step by step how to plan your network, buy the right hardware at the right price, install, and configure computer sharing Determine the best place to put the different computers in your home there are home Piggyback cable channels like Install electrical and telephone and wireless connection problems Set each computer to share some things and prevents other people personally Managing users and user profiles Install a firewall, working with Windows XP SP2 Security Center, keep virus protection updated, and develop a disaster recovery plan for keeping your network optimum performance Kathy Ivens is Senior Contributing Editor Windows & Magazines. NET and consultant who has installed many networks. Edition Home Networking For Dummies includes the most up-to-date information-to help you become a network administrator has a home that really you without obtaining one more gray hair.