Home Networking: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know, But Were Afraid to Ask! presented by Brian Sammons
Tuesday, May 25 at University of Dayton Campus, Dayton, Ohio No charge.    Please bring a friend.    Guests welcome. Please join us Tuesday night, May 25, 2004 for this free presentation at the University of Dayton. Go to O'Leary Auditorium in Miriam Hall. Please note that this meeting returns to our usual room and building. We'll begin at 7:30 pm. Bring a friend. by Jim Ullom

At the May 25^th general meeting, DMA^® will host Brian Sammons of Captech Technologies, who will be making a presentation on wired and wireless home/ SOHO networking.

Why would someone want a home network in the first place? There are several reasons, but the top three are probably 1) having the ability to share an internet connection between multiple computers, 2) being able to share files between several computers, and 3) the added layer of virus and hacker protection offered by having a hardware firewall on your router.

So, after giving it careful consideration, you've decided that the idea sounds interesting, and you'd like to have a home network. We'll, the decision to install a home network is probably the easiest part of the entire process. Before you run out and buy the parts for a network, you need to ask yourself a few questions:

• How expensive is a home network?
• How difficult is it to install a network? Can I do it myself, or do I need professional help? (or WILL I need professional help if the installation goes south and makes me CRAZY?)
• Should I go with a wired or wireless network? What are the advantages of each?
• How easy/ difficult is it to install each type of system?
• Can I run the wires and make the connections myself if I decide on a wired network?
• If I decide to go wireless, how am I going to secure my network from hackers?
• What protocol should I use if I go wireless? A, B, G, X, and so forth. What are the advantages of each, the disadvantages?
• What kind of hardware is needed? Costs or each brand? Recommended brands, etc.?
• What about software?
• What is a WAP? Where are they locally? How can I log on to another network?
• What do they mean by “War Chalking”?

So join us on Tuesday, May 25^th, and have all of these questions and more, answered. In addition, Brian will install and get a network up and running during the presentation. (and given the hardware problems we had during some of the previous meetings, THAT ALONE will be worth the price of admission! (which is free anyway)

About our presenter

Brian Sammons is the president of Capstone Technologies Group, a local IT consulting company head quartered in Springfield, Ohio and servicing businesses in the Columbus, Springfield, Dayton area. They offer sales, support, and service of desktops, servers, wired and wireless networks, and provide turnkey systems on demand.

In case you missed this excellent presentation, or missed some key points, Mr. Sammons has generously allowed us to put the Powerpoint presentation (1.4 MB) and MS Word file he used for our presentation, which we have converted to a PDF file (160 KB), on our web site. Finally, some additional web resources: http://snipurl.com/6o6o = Google search for securing wireless networks on Microsoft's site.

George Gibbs, Acting Editor
The DataBus
editor@dma.org

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