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Home office highlights from CES
Jan. 19, 2004
Telework, home office and home network developments from the Consumer Electronics Show.

Here comes home control
Aug. 04, 2003
New IP services help mobile and remote workers monitor the home while away.

Comdex: Home LANs arrive in dizzying variety
Nov. 17, 2000
Home networks, once considered a toy for the ultimate geek, cropped up all across the show floor here at this year's Comdex, the Wal-Mart of computer trade shows.

Comdex: Sony shows off range of home LANs
Nov. 15, 2000
Sony Tuesday provided a glimpse of the many choices consumers would soon face when putting together home networks for entertainment, information and telecommuting.

Netflix, TiVo team up on broadband movies to the home
Sep. 30, 2004
Netflix and TiVo have signed an agreement to let TiVo subscribers access Netflix's library of movies over broadband Internet connections, the two companies announced Thursday.

Home networking how to

Getting a computer to print on a printer connected to another PC
Feb. 04, 2008
My main computer is connected through a router that is connected to a cable modem, the cable modem is also connected to a switch that connects to a second router that connects to the other computer (the other computer ...

Building home labs for Cisco certs: what you need to know
Jul. 09, 2008
Wendell Odom, Cisco press author, instructor and blogger was recently a repeat guest for Network World chat. Attendees asked him the best ways to build a home lab, which certs still have power in the market, and ...

Getting a Mac to print on a wireless network
Mar. 24, 2008
The printer is attached via USB to the wireless router. The printer works fine when attached to either computer but I can't address it from the Mac when the USB is connected to the wireless router. I have enabled ...

Getting home wireless to work
Jan. 14, 2008
I have a laptop that I have tried connecting to my new home cable network. Everything is connected but I can not even see my router on my laptop. HELP!! This is frustrating because a few weeks ago I had it on the road ...

Upgrading a home office to a hardware router
Mar. 08, 2007
I'm looking to upgrade to a hardware firewall for my home office that's running a mix of PCs, Macs and occasionally a virtualized Linux machine or two over a stack of NetGear switches and a LinkSys cable modem. Any ...