Linksys Networks: The Official Guide

by Kathy Ivens

Aims to help you build a wired or wireless Linksys network in your home or office easily. This title includes details on selecting the right hardware and components for your needs, installing your... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072258586
• ISBN13: 9780072258585
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Linksys Networks: The Official Guide, Third Edition

Great book to help you get your home network up and running properly and help you to make it secure like it needs to be. No more hackers and no more faulty setups like I had for years. This book taught me all of the ins and outs to setup my game machines, printers, five PCs, pocket pc, eight cameras that guard my house day and night, Internet, Dish Network and my video entertainment center all of these components are now wireless. Now I can connect anything they make because I truly understand the concepts of how these products actually work. This weekend I connected a four terabit NAS that has all of my DVD movies on it to my entertainment center and I can now watch any movie on any PC or on my TV, the best part is it's wireless. Now my DVDs won't get damaged or lost ever again. The kids only have access to movies I approve of for them to watch from their own bedrooms. My wife and I can watch adult movies from our bedroom when we want. I can make a copy of any movie I have in my collection in about two minutes with my 22x burner and 12 gigabits of ram from the computer located in my office that's on the other end of the house. It's been great to finally get everything working by myself. Buy this book and you could do these things too in just a few months of practice.

A great how-to networking guide

This is very much a how-to book. There is little on network principles. The other side of that is it misses little in how to install, bring to life, and manage a home network. If you have Linksys hardware, you'll find the content directly addresses your needs; yet, despite its name, the book is not that Linksys specific. Glenn covers four topics especially well: network security, resource sharing, tips and troubleshooting, and advanced network tools. The latter, in an appendix, presents Windows graphical and command-line network tools. It makes Windows XP network diagnostic tools available to just about anyone, even those with no technical exposure to networking. If you just want the practical details on how to set up a wired or wireless network, you would probably give Linksys Networks five stars. I wanted more on principles.

Everyone should have a Linksys Wireless Network!

This book is great! It helped me set up a wireless network in my house - my wife and kids are really, really happy! Now, I can share printers, files, and be online with my laptop while I'm watching a game on TV or checking out recipes in the kitchen. I highly recommend this book.

Long time Linksys fan

I bought a Linksys 4 port router about 2.5 years ago (for about [money]!) so I could share my DSL connection throughout my enormous NYC apartment. With this book i got the skinny on updating my firmware, going wireless, keeping my neighbors out of my wireless network, and other cool stuff. It even touches on accessing PCs remotely on the network. Once you get the network running and the broadband working you tend to forget about security, updating, how cables are laid out, etc. This book gets and keeps you on track so you don't skip over little things that can cost a lot later.

Linksys Networks: Official Guide

PC Magazine recently rated several of the SOHO (Small Office Home Office) systems and rated Linksys (+plus 2 others) highest in customer satisfaction. PC Magazine noted, that while Linksys had one of the hightest customer service ratings by users, technechial service would wain after the rep decided that the malfunction was not related to a Linksys part. Accordingly, I decided to build with all Linksys components. Text, brand new, off the press October, 2002, explains each of the Linksys components available for a SOHO LAN (Local Operating Network, eg. BEFSR41 ver2 Router, both hard-wired and Wireless Switches, the advantages of wireless, compared to RJ45 Ethernet hard wiring, USBs, etc. The overview and specifics are all in this text. Enables the home LAN builder to designed it right the first time, setting up the sytem's a breeze. Kathy Ivens & Larry Seltzer have a winner.