The last time DACS had a presentation on home networking, I saw a member leaving early. I asked if she had learned something about wiring her home, and she replied enough to know I should hire someone to do it for me. Well, for the novice, wireless networking isnt exactly a piece of cake either, but DACS gurus Jim Scheef and Bruce Preston, certainly layered it up with plenty of icing. With dozens of presentation slides, including outlines, schematics, photographs and screen shots, Jim and Bruce covered every aspect of setting up a home network. This ranged from definitions, terms and concepts, all the hardware needed, sample configurations, a hands-off demo, clues to what can go wrong, and guidelines on how to go back and do it right the next time. Now, most of these things really are complicated; so Jim and Bruce had to skim through much of the details. The real focus of the presentation was to walk through the set-up of a basic wireless network, with the completion underscored by an on-stage hoop trick showing that there was no physical connection between the network and its operators. View Bruce & Jim's Presentation |
Allan Ostergren is editor of dacs.doc, a former president of DACS, and not afraid to ask someone else to help with the technical stuff. |
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