Home Networking Bible is the comprehensive resource for both novices and techies for creating, configuring, using, and troubleshooting a network in homes for family or small business use. -Covers soup to nuts details from the basics of making network and hardware choices, planning and setting up the networking hardware (running cables or wireless, routers, NICs, etc.) and software; managing the computers on the network; using the Internet and email; working with files, folders, and applications on a network; and troubleshooting problems to the cutting edge home technologies including smart homes and networking media and productivity devices such as televisions, PDAs etc. -The new edition includes wireless home networking options, updated security information, networking with Mac OS X, Linux and XP and networking home media devices such as television, Tivo, Xbox, PS2, cell phones, PDA etc.