Home and Small Office Networking
with: Jeff Van West and Garrick Chow
Do you have more than one computer in your home or small office? If you do, you need a network! Using the network, you can share a single internet connection between all your computers, transfer files with a few mouse-clicks rather than a pile of floppy disks, and work wirelessly with your laptop from anywhere in the room. You can also use your network for sharing printers, playing music, and vanquishing the enemy in multi-player online games.
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Table of contents
Introduction
welcome 2:25 11.8 MB
Networking Basics
what is a network? 2:53 14.8 MB
what is a network part 2 7:11 6.2 MB
connecting two computers 2:23 12.8 MB
connecting multiple computers 2:49 14.4 MB
wired clients (windows) 5:31 5.2 MB
wired clients (mac) 5:15 5.6 MB
wired vs. wireless 6:49 5.8 MB
Router Administration
router administration 7:32 10.2 MB
firmware updates 6:46 11.6 MB
airport administration 7:10 8.1 MB
software update (airport) 4:41 7.5 MB
Sharing an Internet Connection
types of broadband 6:49 6.3 MB
firewalls and port forwarding 10:58 11.6 MB
restricting internet access 6:20 9.5 MB
good internet habits 9:25 10.4 MB
internet connection sharing (windows) 4:57 5.5 MB
internet connection sharing (mac) 5:17 6.4 MB
Sharing Files Over a Network
windows workgroups 6:47 7.7 MB
user accounts (windows) 7:01 6.6 MB
simple file sharing (windows) 7:59 11.5 MB
advanced file sharing (windows) 16:01 21.9 MB
user accounts (mac) 7:07 8.2 MB
simple file sharing (mac) 8:30 10.4 MB
advanced file sharing (mac) 7:48 10.1 MB
windows/mac file sharing 6:36 7.4 MB
managing network passwords (windows) 8:54 11.6 MB
keychain (mac) 4:55 7 MB
file sharing and firewalls (windows sp1) 4:27 6 MB
file sharing and firewalls (windows sp2) 2:47 3.7 MB
file sharing and firewalls (mac) 2:30 3.2 MB
offline folders (windows) 9:00 12.5 MB
Other Types of Network Sharing
sharing via iChat 6:47 9.9 MB
sharing printers and peripherals (windows) 3:42 5.2 MB
sharing printers and peripherals (mac) 2:18 2.5 MB
printing to a network printer (windows) 3:02 3.8 MB
printing to a network printer (mac) 4:22 5.5 MB
printing to a mac printer from windows 2:23 2.7 MB
sharing music with iTunes 8:08 12.1 MB
remote desktop (windows) 4:36 6.6 MB
remote desktop (mac) 7:39 13 MB
Wireless Networks
introduction to wireless 2:05 10.8 MB
placing a wireless basestation 3:17 2.8 MB
wireless router administration 3:12 3.9 MB
airport administration 3:36 4.9 MB
installing wireless cards in laptops 1:40 9 MB
installing airport cards in macs 2:03 9.7 MB
installing wireless cards in PCs 5:41 27.8 MB
wireless settings (windows sp1) 5:41 6.7 MB
wireless settings (windows sp2) 1:01 1.1 MB
explaining encryption 9:57 11.3 MB
WEP encryption (windows) 7:22 9.5 MB
WEP encryption (mac) 8:05 9.9 MB
WPA-PSK encryption 7:34 9.3 MB
WPA personal encryption (mac) 6:24 7.1 MB
disabling SSID broadcast 5:02 6 MB
disabling SSID broadcast (airport) 3:07 4.1 MB
MAC address filtering 5:01 6.8 MB
MAC address filtering (airport) 3:08 4.4 MB
extending an airport network 11:38 15.3 MB
Hacks, Tricks, and Other Cool Things
linking hubs pt1 3:00 15.8 MB
linking hubs pt2 7:04 10.1 MB
wireless access point 1:25 7.9 MB
wireless access point part 2 6:21 7.8 MB
wireless access point part 3 0:48 4 MB
ad-hoc network (windows) 8:12 9.6 MB
ad-hoc network (mac) 2:14 2.8 MB
bridging networks 6:10 7 MB
Troubleshooting
troubleshooting strategy 9:44 9.6 MB
pinging (windows) 5:41 6.7 MB
pinging (mac) 4:29 5.8 MB
network place won't appear (windows) 5:48 6.3 MB
intermittent wireless connections 5:34 6.7 MB
Conclusion
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