These are articles about shaping and optimising your home network to suit your needs and situation. This includes articles ahte cover technologies that will be applicalbe to the development of a small network.
Network Setup Issues
Here, these articles concern getting going with broadhand Internet or having that small network how you wish. It also includes issues like making sure you have the proper wireless coverage or extend the Internet to other buildings in your property like the “man-cave” garage or cabin.
- Setting Up A New Router – How to go about setting up a typical Internet router for secure proper Internet service and network operation when you replace or upgrade an existing router or take on broadband Internet service at your home or small business.
- UPDATED Extending Your Wireless Network Coverage – Gaining More Area Out Of The Wireless Network. This article has been updated to encompass multi-band 802.11n wireless networks, WPS quick-setup and modem-routers that have become surplus due to the arrival of next-generation broadband.
- UPDATED Wiring Your House For Ethernet – How to go about having your new or renovated house wired with Ethernet cabling
- How to consider the online future when doing up that old house or apartment – Ideas to help people who are fixing up an old house or apartment factor in the home network and online life as part of this modernisation effort.
- Setting up for Internet in France – How to go about understanding the highly-competitive French broadband Internet market
- An ideal home network for an apartment – What you need to know about obtaining good-quality Internet and home network connectivity when you downsize and move to that new apartment.
Multi-Building Home Networks
This is for people who live in suburban, regional or rural areas where the property will have extra buildings in addition to the main house. As you desire to make these buildings a place to work, live or play in, you may want to have them part of your home network.
- Multi-Building Home Networks – Extending your home network to the outbuildings like your garage or shed that is to be a “man-cave” or your cabin or bungalow that the teenagers will use for playing games.
- HomePlug AV500 – earns its place in connecting that man-cave to the house– HomePlug can work with extending your home network out to that detached building like that barn, cabin or garage.
Network Technologies
HomePlug powerline networks
- Understanding And Managing Your HomePlug Network – Knowing how to get the best out of your HomePlug powerline network
- Understanding HomePlug AV2 – The robust next generation of the HomePlug AV powerline-networking specification
- Don’t Forget About HomePlug Powerline Networking In Your Home Network Setup – Considering HomePlug powerline network technology as a viable network data path for your home network, whether to serve desktop computers and home-theatre equipment or to extend your wireless network’s coverage.
Wi-Fi wireless networks
- Understanding 802.11n High-Bandwidth Wireless Networks – Knowing about the Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n) high-bandwidth wireless network standard and what is needed to deploy these wireless networks
- Understanding Wi-Fi Direct – Knowing about the new Wi-Fi Direct feathre for creating Wi-Fi-based personal-area networks without a hardware access point or router.
- New nonenclature for Wi-Fi wireless networks – Understanding what the Wi-Fi 4, Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 6 names mean when describing how capable your Wi-Fi network equipment is.
- Understanding WPA3 Wi-Fi network security – What will the new WPA3 Wi-Fi network security that is part of Wi-Fi 6 be about. This includes compatibility modes that cater towards existing Wi-Fi client devices that support WPA2.
- Wi-Fi EasyConnect – A new method to onboard new Wi-Fi network devices to your home network. This will move beyond transcribing Wi-Fi network passwords or pressing the WPS button on the router and new device.
- Understanding Wi-Fi EasyMesh distributed networks – What will Wi-Fi EasyMesh mean for distributed multiple-access-point wireless networks especially where devices will appear from different vendors?
Ethernet “new-wires” networks
- UPDATED Wiring Your House For Ethernet – How to go about having your new or renovated house wired with Ethernet cabling
- Understanding Power-Over-Ethernet – How it is possible to use an Ethernet cable to supply power to a network device like an access point as well as convey data betwen it and the network.
Newer network technologies
- Being Ready For IPv6 – Understanding the new IPv6 Internet technology and how it will affect your home or small-business network.