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Summary: Linksys Networks: Official Guide
Review: Great Book. Simply and Clearly written enough that the new comer can either design and set up his own LAN or ask the right questions of the installer.
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Summary: Instructor's Opinion
Review: I am a networking instructor in our local community college. I have had the opportunity to work with many products from a variety of manufacturers. I have never yet been let down with a Linksys product. They prove to be reliable and user friendly every time. I recommend their products as well as this book. The book was filled with great, and most important, accurate information!!!!
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Summary: Instructor's Opinion
Review: I am a networking instructor in our local community college. I have had the opportunity to work with many products from a variety of manufacturers. I have never yet been let down with a Linksys product. They prove to be reliable and user friendly every time. I recommend their products as well as this book. The book was filled with great, and most important, accurate information!!!!
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Summary: Long time Linksys fan
Review: I bought a Linksys 4 port router about 2.5 years ago (for about [money]!) so I could share my DSL connection throughout my enormous NYC apartment. With this book i got the skinny on updating my firmware, going wireless, keeping my neighbors out of my wireless network, and other cool stuff. It even touches on accessing PCs remotely on the network. Once you get the network running and the broadband working you tend to forget about security, updating, how cables are laid out, etc. This book gets and keeps you on track so you don't skip over little things that can cost a lot later.
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Summary: Helped me set up a network in just a few hours
Review: I bought this book because I have read a few of Kathy Ivens' other books on Quicken and because my Dad wanted me to set up a wireless network in his house. As expected, Kathy Ivens' writing is very clear and I set up the network in a matter of hours. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Complete Waste of Time and Money
Review: I have never been more disappointed with a computer and networking book than this one. I learned absolutely nothing. This book is oriented towards the total novice. If you have any experience at all with computers then this book is not for you. The book assumes there are only two operating systems: Windows 98SE and Windows XP. Windows 2000 is mentioned a couple of times in passing. This book is oriented to those who believe that Windows 98SE and Windows XP are the only operating systems available. There was no discussion of Macintosh, no discussion of Linux, no discussion of UNIX. If I'd had an opportunity to skim this book before purchasing it I would have left it on the shelf. The text was highly repetitive. All of the information in this book *should* have been included for free with the Linksys documentation. As it was, all of the information in the book *is* available for free with the Windows help and LInksys documentation. I feel scammed.
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Summary: Complete Waste of Time and Money
Review: I have never been more disappointed with a computer and networking book than this one. I learned absolutely nothing. This book is oriented towards the total novice. If you have any experience at all with computers then this book is not for you. The book assumes there are only two operating systems: Windows 98SE and Windows XP. Windows 2000 is mentioned a couple of times in passing. This book is oriented to those who believe that Windows 98SE and Windows XP are the only operating systems available. There was no discussion of Macintosh, no discussion of Linux, no discussion of UNIX. If I'd had an opportunity to skim this book before purchasing it I would have left it on the shelf. The text was highly repetitive. All of the information in this book *should* have been included for free with the Linksys documentation. As it was, all of the information in the book *is* available for free with the Windows help and LInksys documentation. I feel scammed.
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Summary: Linksys hardware is great, but book tells nothing about VPNs
Review: I have several LinkSys devices in use for quite a long time. I agree with all good words already said there about LinkSys hardware. Book is also good - only as far as explaining simplest things goes... I purchased this book after BEFSX41 router which can implement also Virtual Private Networks - simply speaking an encrypted tunnel over open Internet to connect two local networks. My decision to upgrade from BEFSR41 to BEFSX41 was made mainly because of new VPN features in SX. I intend to use VPN to connect my and my son's private local networks over Internet. We both have fixed IP addresses and could use each others location as off-site backup place.Unfortunately all that this book tells about VPN's is "I advise you use a consultant who understands the security issues involved" (page 229). Thank you very much, dear author, YOU are the consultant who ought to tell about standard features available in LinkSys products as well as elswhere. I am definitely disappointed. Certainly I will get trough this VPN organizing but the book will be of no help for me. Beware.
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Summary: Linksys Networks: The Official Guide
Review: Incomplete and overly simplistic. The authors frequently use acronyms, but the glossary does not define them. This book does not cover the 802.11g wireless routers, etc. It offers nothing usefull on the problems that I have encountered. Perhaps the second edition will fix some of these problems.
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Summary: Linksys Networks: The Official Guide
Review: Incomplete and overly simplistic. The authors frequently use acronyms, but the glossary does not define them. This book does not cover the 802.11g wireless routers, etc. It offers nothing usefull on the problems that I have encountered. Perhaps the second edition will fix some of these problems.
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