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How many times have you needed to hit Print on your computer and you’ve realized that you’re just not connected to a printer?

Physically connecting your computer to the printer of course will mean picking your computer up, making your way to wherever the printer is, or wherever a computer is that is connected to the printer through Ethernet cable.

Why on earth should anyone have to put up with this, when it’s cheap buying and setting up a wireless printer?

Printers are just getting smarter everyday. A wireless printer – one that is able to connect to computers through Bluetooth or Wi-Fi – can be had for as little as $50.

You can park the printer wherever it’s convenient, plug it into the power, and you’re good to go. It’ll just show up on everybody’s computer as a network destination, and anyone can just send print jobs.

If you’re good with setting up a wireless printer, there is no reason to have to wire things up anymore.

Now, unless you have a very old printer, you never have to connect a printer directly to the computer it needs to print from.

Nearly every printer out there has a regular Ethernet port. You just need to connect the printer to a Wi-Fi router that wirelessly connects to every computer in the building, and you’d have yourself a wireless printer just like that.

But that isn’t really as convenient as a real wireless printer.

In some buildings and installations, the router is located somewhere really inconvenient, sometimes in the basement or on another floor.

To have to put the printer next to the router can make little sense in many places. Setting up a wireless printer is the only thing that would work.

Once you have it, you could get your printer and every computer in the building to connect wirelessly to one another.

In some installations, wirelessness in a printer can make even more sense. Consider a small office where there is more than one printer – perhaps one that’s an inexpensive color laser model, one that’s a monochrome laser model, a couple of inkjet models for different levels of quality and so on.

Everyone in the office would want to connect to every one of these printers at different times. A print server would be an excellent idea in this case.

Actually, make that a wireless print server. To think of the kind of wiring you would need to do in such a situation if it weren’t a wireless set up, fairly boggles the mind.

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We have certainly been working on lopping off the wires that get our gadgets speaking to one another. The remote control takes care of one, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth take care of some, and the cell phone takes care of one important wire.

Somehow, it’s hard to get tired of the magic of going wireless, no matter how many times we get to experience it. Samsung has come up with a new wireless connection to lop off a few more wires now that happens to be particularly exciting.

The device looks no different from any particularly trendy looking 27” high-def computer monitor. It costs about $500 to buy.

So why would you pay that much money for a 27 inch monitor when you could probably get it for $350? You’d pay that because this is more than just a monitor. It’s a monitor with a wireless docking station built in.

Have you ever had the misfortune to use a laptop docking station? A docking station is a device that works with certain laptops; the docking station connects to a proper keyboard and mouse, a full-sized monitor, external hard drives and every peripheral you need for a proper desktop experience. Read the rest of this entry →

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There’s always something to spoil your free fun. The one fun thing that’s available for free – a public Wi-Fi network at a coffee shop or a train station – that you’ve always enjoyed making use of, the spoilsports have to always warn you about it.

Everyone has to tell you that these things aren’t safe and that there can be all kinds of malware that the jump from one computer to the next over such a network.

Not only do people just idly browse the Internet when on a public Wi-Fi network, they even do stuff that’s supposed to be private or personal – their banking, buying stuff over the Internet, their taxes.

Now no one’s going to ever listen to advice on how they are never to do this. If something seems harmless on the surface, people are going to do it no matter what.

So here are a few tips on how best to secure yourself if you do find yourself unable to resist the temptation of the public Wi-Fi network.

There are nearly 100,000 free Wi-Fi hotspots around the country. When you do anything on such a network, your laptop sends out a wireless signal with all of that data right there.

Both the router that enables the hotspot and any spying person can pick up that signal. Coffee shops could provide an encrypted signal; but that would mean having to help customers connect; and no coffee shop wants to be burdened with tech support. So basically, hotspots offer no security whatsoever. Read the rest of this entry →

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The IOGEAR Wireless RF Keyboard – Optical Mouse Combo is a good alternative to using a keyboard or a touchpad. IOGEAR Keyboard keyboard narrower than the standard size and may take some time to adjust to use. Although this mouse is designed for left-handed people, I still have a problem using it with my left hand and he has a nice solid feel to it.

The IOGEAR Wireless RF- Optical Mouse Combo Description

• Maximum Operating Range: 6ft.
• 3 year warranty.
• Keyboard Dimensions: 18″ (45.72cm) L x 6.25″ (2.81cm) W x 0.77″ (1.96cm) H
• Requires 2 AAA Ni-MH rechargeable batteries for mouse and 2 AAA batteries for keyboard.
• Compatible with Windows 98/SE/ME/2000/XP and MAC OS X (10.2.x or later)
• 2 Channels available to use.
• Mouse Dimensions: 4.8″ (12.19cm) L x 2.5″ (6.35cm) W x 1.5″ (3.81cm) W

The IOGEAR Wireless RF- Optical Mouse Combo – Pro

* The keyboard has a sleek profile.
* Mouse is very sturdy and has 5 buttons.
* Both the keyboard and mouse programmed.
* Mouse recharges in the base receiver.
* Mouse and keyboard can be used up to 6ft away from the receiver.

The IOGEAR Wireless RF- Optical Mouse Combo- Cons

* Mouse took the time to connect to the receiver.
* Keyboard small backspace button.
* Keyboard is too long to enter in the laptop case which most.
* Mouse is designed for right-hand man.
* Rapid Key / Multimedia is not supported in MAC systems

5 buttons optical mouse is a style which makes it great for work if you want to use only the mouse with your laptop. Its added a lot of functionality and ease of use for a laptop.

You may have just bought your first computer home and are anxious to connect it to the internet and start browsing, or perhaps you just need to move your current computer. You can choose to extend the wires across your home, or you can buy a wireless router.

What is a wireless router? In short, it is a device that connects you to your modem-it will not connect you directly to the internet, so if you don’t currently have a modem you either need to buy a router/modem combination or buy the modem first.

It is the modem that connects to the internet, and in turn will pass information to your computer from the internet and vice versa. It normally does this through a wire that is plugged into a port in the back of your computer or internet. The wire has to be connected at all times for you to get a connection and so if you wish to move your computer or laptop, you need a longer wire. Read the rest of this entry →

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Components that make up your wireless system are simply the two units: one, the wireless router or the access point and two, the wireless card or the connectivity over a WiFi card.

In the case of the access point, you can also connect to an Ethernet network or to a broadband internet line. That is the additional facility that you might have on your wireless router.

On your wireless card, if you have configured with a server allocated IP address, it is easy for your laptop to be placed anywhere and still get connected to any of the servers there, provided they are also configured in the same way.

Dynamic allocation is therefore, the best method for connection where you might move in and out of multiple networks or there are multiple numbers of people who might log in and out of the network. Under all these circumstances you will find that the laptop is better configured and equipped to work at ease with this wireless modem. Read the rest of this entry →

When you first bring your router home, you can run it straight out of the box. It is often possible to simply plug it into the mains, plug the modem into it and search for the wireless signal. You can connect your computer to it right away with a nice, clean, strong signal and are away!

But then so can everyone else who can see your signal. The problem is that a wireless router will broadcast its presence far and wide, within the limits of it’s signal strength.

If it is in the very middle of your home, then it may not reach far outside but set it next to a wall and you could be providing a free internet service for all of your neighbors. Read the rest of this entry →

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A wireless router and data storage all in one?  With the Linksys WRT160NL wireless router, you also get a USB storage link.

The storage link allows you to attach a USB External hard drive, and share it for all users of your home network.  If your home is like many homes these days, you have multiple laptops, and would love to share some files.

This Linksys router with it’s Storage Link allow you to set this up quickly and easily.  It supports all versions of Microsoft Windows, and also recent versions of Mac OS.

The attached storage is also a great place for you to backup your critical files.  Having a couple USB drives you can swap out, would let you keep one drive running, and have a backup copy put away in a safe place.

Setting up the Linksys attached storage is very simple, just hook up the USB drive, open My Computer on your PC, and then type the router name in the address bar at the top.  The Linksys setup CD will have asked you to assign as name to your router.

We love having network attached storage in our home.  We share our pictures, and family documents on the attached drive, giving everyone quick access.

The router is also a great Wireless-N router.  The coverage and speed of Wireless-N is great covering every corner of our home.  Linksys has always made great quality products, and this router is not an exception.

The WRT160NL is a great value, for getting both a high quality wireless router, but also getting a solution for sharing files on your home network.

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Emtec Movie Cube is a device which could stall all your digital multimedia files, be is digital TV, films, mp3 or internet radio, all of them can be saved and controlled from this device.

The box incorporates digital and analogue TV tuner, a 500GB hard drive for storage and both wireless and wired network connections to share your content around the network.

This device has most of the outputs which cater to various different needs. There are composite and component video output, optical, analogue stereo audio outputs and a lot more. Read the rest of this entry →

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The Linksys WRT54GS Wireless-G Broadband Router makes setting up a home or office network much easier.

It comes together with the documents needed in order to install it well. However, some users complained that the web interface is difficult to navigate, instructions are hard to understand and the security setup should be explained better for novices.

Drop link has also been observed. Some offshore users also complained about the lack of offshore services.

The Fast Start guide will try its best to illustrate the setup process. Judging by the comments of several users, it is better to have basic networking knowledge in order to use this router.

The Linksys WRT54GS has a web-based configuration tool that gives you the access to other networking settings like the DHCP server and client settings. Read the rest of this entry →

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