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We have all come a
long way from connecting to the internet via the
old 2400 baud telephone line modem to a slow AOL
connection. Now, there are many ways to connect
to high-speed internet at various costs and
service levels. Today, the Cable TV provided
high-speed internet access usually costs about
$50 per month in the United States and provides
speeds from 1 megabits per second to 3 megabits
per second (in some locations). The baby bells
have also jumped on the high-speed internet
service bandwagon, with various DSL service
offers. The DSL service is delivered to your
home or office over a standard telephone line,
and the cost can be as low as $25 per month for
high-speed access.
The best thing
about high-speed internet service (other than
you don’t have to wait forever for your favorite
web page to load) is the option to connect other
users to your same internet connection - and
share the service. There are two ways to share
an internet connection – either hard wire
network (using twisted (4) pair Cat 5 wire), or
Wireless network. The old-fashioned hard-wire
method is still the best for constant
connectivity and security. With a hard-wire
network and the correct security precautions, it
is very difficult for a hacker to access your
network from across the street! However, wiring
your house or small business for hard-wired
internet and network access can be a big job
with big costs, and your computer is “stuck” in
one location near the wire outlet. Today the
wireless network solutions from Linksys (a
Division of Cisco Systems, Inc.) and
CableOrganizer.com are affordable, reliable, and
secure. Here is a fast primer on how to build
your first indoor wireless network to share
internet access.
The first thing
you have to do is purchase a high-speed internet
connection from your favorite local internet
provider. Both DSL or Cable internet access will
be delivered through a high-speed DSL or Cable
modem. Now to set-up a simple wireless network
you need two more things; a Wireless Router (to
connect to your high-speed modem), and a way to
receive the wireless signal at your computer, a
wireless network card. Wireless Network Cards
are available for internal installation as a PCI
card, or, as an external plug-in card for your
laptop, or as a USB port connection on any
computer. I prefer the USB port connected
network cards because they are easily portable
to any computer (laptop or desktop). The
instructions that are provided with the router
and the network cards are relatively easy to
understand. Just remember to follow the
instructions carefully from the beginning. You
will be connected wirelessly to the router and
the internet very quickly, and you will be
amazed at the quality of the 300 feet range
connection.
Before
completing your wireless network configuration,
please don’t forget to install the recommended
security precautions. The Linksys Wireless
Routers allow you to specify only the computers
that you want to allow access to your network
(via the network card MAC address). And, you can
also configure 128-bit encryption of all the
wireless traffic from your computers to the
wireless router. This security is sufficient to
deny access to the most malicious hacker
attempts, and it is all provided free with your
Linksys Wireless network from CableOrganizer.com.
There is nothing better than surfing the net
wirelessly from your backyard patio on a nice
day. Have fun!
Dennis Oley is New
Products Specialist at
http://cableorganizer.com/
- Hundreds of cable management products to
choose from, all in one place.
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