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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