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xiv Wireless Home Networking For Dummies, 3rd Edition Chapter 9: Securing Your Wireless Home Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159 Assessing the Risks......................................................................................160 General Internet security ..................................................................160 Airlink security ...................................................................................162 Getting into Encryption and Authentication ............................................163 Introducing Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP).................................165 A better way: WPA..............................................................................167 Clamping Down on Your Wireless Home Network’s Security.................168 Getting rid of the defaults .................................................................170 Enabling encryption...........................................................................171 Closing your network.........................................................................173 Taking the Easy Road...................................................................................175 Going for the Ultimate in Security..............................................................177 Part IV: Using a Wireless Network..............................179 Chapter 10: Putting Your Wireless Home Network to Work . . . . . . .181 A Networking Review...................................................................................182 Basic networking terminology..........................................................182 Setting up a workgroup in Windows XP ..........................................184 Will You Be My Neighbor?...........................................................................185 Sharing — I Can Do That! ............................................................................187 Enabling sharing on Windows XP.....................................................188 Setting permissions............................................................................189 Accessing shared files........................................................................191 Be Economical: Share Those Peripherals .................................................191 Setting up a print server....................................................................192 Sharing other peripherals .................................................................195 Windows Vista and a New Way to Share ...................................................196 Setting up your workgroup ...............................................................196 Setting up sharing in Vista ................................................................197 Sharing in Microsoft Windows Vista ................................................199 Sharing between Macs and Windows-based PCs.....................................201 Getting on a Windows network.........................................................201 Letting Windows users on your network ........................................201 Chapter 11: Gaming Over a Wireless Home Network . . . . . . . . . . . . .203 PC Gaming Hardware Requirements..........................................................204 Networking Requirements for PC Gaming ................................................205 Getting Your Gaming Console on Your Wireless Home Network ...........206 Console wireless networking equipment ........................................208 Console online gaming services .......................................................210 Dealing with Router Configurations...........................................................214 Getting an IP address .........................................................................216 Dealing with port forwarding............................................................217 Setting Up a Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).....................................................220
Table of Contents Chapter 12: Networking Your Entertainment Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . .223 Wirelessly Enabling Your Home Entertainment System..........................224 Getting Media from Computers to A/V Equipment..................................228 Choosing Networked Entertainment Gear................................................232 Adding Wi-Fi to Ethernet A/V gear ...................................................233 Equipment with built-in Wi-Fi ...........................................................234 Putting a Networked PC in Your Home Theater.......................................235 Internet Content for Your Media Adapters, Players, and HTPCs...........238 Chapter 13: Using Your Wireless Network for Phone Calls . . . . . . .241 Understanding VoIP .....................................................................................242 Understanding VoIP terminology .....................................................243 Understanding VoIP services............................................................244 Going Wireless with Your VoIP Service .....................................................247 Choosing VoIP Wi-Fi phones .............................................................249 An alternative to Wi-Fi phones .........................................................251 Choosing Skype phones ....................................................................252 Understanding FMC (Fixed Mobile Convergence) ...................................254 Chapter 14: Other Cool Things You Can Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .257 Making a Connection to Your Car ..............................................................258 Your car’s path to wireless enlightenment......................................258 Synching your car with devices in the car......................................259 Synching your car stereo with home...............................................262 Turning your car into a hot spot ......................................................264 Getting online with your own car PC ...............................................266 Networking your navigation system ................................................268 Choosing wireless gear for your car ................................................270 “Look, Ma, I’m on TV” — Video Monitoring over Wireless LANs...........271 Controlling Your Home over Your Wireless LAN......................................275 See me, feel me, hear me, touch me.................................................276 Doing your wireless control less expensively ................................277 Sit, Ubu, Sit . . . er, Speak! ............................................................................278 Wirelessly Connect Your Digital Cameras.................................................280 Chapter 15: Using a Bluetooth Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .281 Discovering Bluetooth Basics.....................................................................282 Bluetooth Mobile Phones............................................................................285 Bluetooth Smartphones and PDAs ............................................................286 Other Bluetooth Devices.............................................................................289 Printers ................................................................................................289 Audio systems ....................................................................................290 Keyboards and meeses (that’s plural for mouse!) .........................291 Bluetooth adapters ............................................................................292 Understanding Pairing and Discovery.......................................................293 xv
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