HOME NETWORKING MADE EASIER AND SAFER!
Networking Expert Advises Consumers with a How-To "Home Networking
Survival Guide"
BERKELEY, Calif.,
September 2001 -
Home users who are confused about how to hook up multiple computers now have
proven and safe guidance with the new book by networking expert David Strom, Home
Networking Survival Guide (ISBN 0-07-219311-5). Published this month by
McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media, the book describes how to get a home network up and
running with a minimum of fuss, skills, and cost, and in terms that anyone with
rudimentary computer knowledge can readily understand. The book also provides
all important security tips to safeguard a home network, in addition to
providing countermeasures that protect the readers' family while "breaking
out" over the Internet.
"I know how
overwhelming and frustrating setting up a network can be," says Strom, who
founded Network Computing magazine and has written hundreds of technical
articles on computer networking since the first corporate networks were put in
place in the late 1980s. He has helped install dozens of networks in both homes
and businesses, and from these experiences wrote this book. "Having a home
network can be very compelling with more families owning multiple computers and
wanting to share high-speed Internet access in addition to the growing number
of those working from home," adds Strom.
According to a June 2001
Gartner Dataquest survey, Internet subscriber figures continue to grow in the
United States and nearly one in four online households use a broadband
connection. Many of these households have multiple computers, which, if they
were connected to a network, could all benefit from the broadband connection.
Similarly, recent research from Cahner's In-Stat, a digital communications
research group, indicates a growing trend where U.S. businesses have fragmented
into multiple remote sites into telecommuters' home offices with the increased
availability of broadband access.
Sharing a broadband
connection can be risky, particularly for consumers concerned about
Internet-based intrusions and opening up their homes to penetrations from
hackers and other evil-doers. In his book, Strom shows how to protect the
digital domicile with a few simple products and steps. He also provides tips for
parents who want to more closely monitor how their children access the
Internet.
Strom wrote the book with
the ordinary consumer, with little computing expertise and no professional
Information Technology background in mind. His aim is to give simple advice
and, above all, to be practical, with enough detail to guide but not overwhelm
his readers. Filled with step-by-step instructions, this straightforward
resource covers networks of both Windows and Macintosh systems. Additional
topics covered in his book include choosing the right cables, setting up shared
files and printers, how to use wireless networks, and details on setting up
e-mail and instant messaging.
About the Author:
David Strom is founder and
president of David Strom, Inc., a networking and communications consulting firm
dedicated to improving the quality of networked products, explaining Internet
technologies to corporate computing managers, and helping early-stage Internet
technology companies. He has worked for most of the major networking companies,
including IBM, Microsoft, Sun, Novell, Intel, and others.
Strom is one of the leading
experts on network and Internet technologies and has written extensively on the
topic for more than thirteen years for a wide variety of publications, including
PC Week, Infoworld, Network World, Computerworld, CNET.com, and Internet.com.
Since 1995, he has published Web Informant, a weekly newsletter on Internet
trends and technologies. In 1990, he created Network Computing Magazine, for
which he was the first editor-in-chief. He is also a frequent speaker, panel
moderator and instructor at various industry events and trade shows around the
world. Strom has appeared on the Fox TV News Network, NPR's Science Friday
radio program, ABC-TV's World News Tonight and CBS-TV's Up to the Minute news
broadcasts.
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Home Networking Survival Guide
By David Strom
Pages: 304 pp
Price: $24.99
Publication Date: September 2001
ISBN: 0-07-219311-5
A McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media Book