Installing, Troubleshooting, and Repairing Wireless Networks

PRACTICAL, AUTHORITATIVE GUIDANCE ON KEEPING A WIRELESS NETWORK WORKING HARD FOR YOUR BUSINESS!

With annual equipment sales projected to grow to more than $5 billion by mid-decade, wireless networking is clearly a technology whose time has come. But with many wireless networks expected to be created at both small offices and home offices, where can people charged with maintaining them get comprehensive information to help them do just that? The answer is McGraw-Hill’s Installing, Troubleshooting, and Repairing Wireless Networks.

Written with insight by a noted IT expert and commentator, this book provides comprehensive coverage of this rapidly emerging technology, and in the process:

* Introduces all wireless components, both “off-the-shelf” and subscriber products

* Covers WiFi technologies as 802.11a and b

* Includes all scales of wireless networks, from home to office, cafes and campuses, airports and hotels, to MANs, and describes what’s best for different needs

* Shows how to integrate wired and wireless LANs

* Discusses the benefits and pitfalls of wireless technologies

* Advises how to set up and maintain security features

* And much, much more!

Basic enough for the hobbyist — and yet still detailed enough for the IT professional — Installing, Troubleshooting, and Repairing Wireless Networks is the essential survival guide for keeping a wireless network up and running.

Contents 

Foreword
    Acknowledgments
   Chapter 1: Wireless Essentials
   Chapter 2: Wireless Network Criteria and Expectations
   Chapter 3: Wireless Network Basics
   Chapter 4: Antennas and Cables
   Chapter 5: Common Wireless Network Components
   Chapter 6: Typical Wireless Installations
   Chapter 7: Hardware Installation and Setup
   Chapter 8: Extending and Maintaining Coverage
   Chapter 9: Wireless Network Security
   Chapter 10: Software for Wireless Networks
   Chapter 11: Wireless Access and Security Solutions
   Chapter 12: System Configuration Data
   Chapter 13: Creating a SOHO Wireless Network
   Chapter 14: Neighborhood and Community Wireless Networks
   Chapter 15: Upcoming Standards and Trends
   Chapter 16: Installing Antennas
    APPENDIX A: CABLE CONNECTIONS
    APPENDIX B: ASSEMBLING RF CONNECTORS
    APPENDIX C: ON THE CD-ROM
    GLOSSARY
    INDEX