Wireless Home Networking - Index of

In This Chapter
� Cruisin’ with wireless on board
Chapter 14
Other Cool Things
You Can Network
� Looking good on Candid Camera, 802.11-style
� Controlling your home from the couch (or bed or backyard)
� Talking to your robo-dog (and having him talk back)
� Connecting a digital camera wirelessly
The wireless age is upon us, with all sorts of new devices and capabilities
that you can add to your network to save you time and enhance your
lifestyle. After you have your wireless local area network in place, which we
show you how to do in Parts II and III, you can do a nearly unlimited number
of things. It sort of reminds us of the Dr. Seuss book Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
In this chapter, we introduce you to some of the neater things that are
available now for your wireless home network. In Chapter 19, we talk about
the things that are coming soon to a network near you! Together, with the
gaming, A/V, and phone discussions in Chapters 11, 12, and 13, respectively,
you see why we say that wireless home networking isn’t just for computers
anymore.
In this chapter, we give you an overview of many new products, but we
can’t give much specific information about how to set up these products. In
general, you have to provide your service set identifier (SSID) and WPA
passphrase (or WEP key, if your network doesn’t support WPA). That should
be 95 percent of what you need to do to set up your device for your wireless
network. In this chapter and in Chapter 19, we feel that it’s important to
expose you to the developments happening now so that you can look around
and explore different options while you wirelessly enable your home. To say
that your whole house will have wireless devices in every room within the
next few years is not an understatement — it’s truly coming on fast (so hold
on tight!).