BACK TO DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY NETWORKING HOMEPAGE
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Tech Talk: Home Networking Quiz |
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Home networks are becoming common in homes that use more than one computer. With people using computers for shopping, home businesses and entertainment, it can be essential to link up not only PCs but also fax machines and TVs. What's going on behind this linked-up system? |
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How Apple Airport Express Works |
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There was a time when connecting to theInternet meant sitting at a desktop computer that was connected to a short (yet expensive) Ethernet cable. And this was a relative luxury compared to yesteryear, when you needed a modemconnected to (gasp) a landline-based phone system. Nowadays, wireless Internet is practically ubiquitous, thanks in part to devices such as the Apple AirPort Express. |
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Get Smart Challenge: No wires required |
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Wireless networks are easy to set up and inexpensive. They're also unobtrusive -- unless you're on the lookout for a place to use your laptop, you may not even notice when you're in a hotspot. |
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Voyager vs AT&T |
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Amazing that we can launch a probe out of our atmosphere and it can still keep contact with earth, but a cell phone company can’t keep a call connected no matter how short the distance between callers.
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Image is for telephone calls but could equally be applied to computer networks |
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