REPEAT [Home Networks]

As you buy faster PCs, you may be keeping your old PC for someone else in the family. But rather than buy a separate modem or printer, you can easily network your home PCs to share these peripherals. We'll look at home network options including devices that let you share your peripherals just by using your existing electrical outlets. [Episode #1818, First broadcast: 1/16/2001] NetGear Most homes have phone wiring, probably making it one of the least expensive ways to set up a home network. We'll demonstrate the latest NetGear products using your phone lines to network your PCs. Vega Technologies Computers are typically underutilized. Vega Technologies' Buddy Systems lets a second user share your CPU to work independently. All you need to buy is an extra monitor, mouse, and keyboard and you have two computers. Apple's AirPort Instead of using traditional cabling to create a network, AirPort is an 11 megabit per second wireless local area network. AirPort allows computers to communicate with one another up to 150 feet away, even through walls. The AirPort uses 2.4 GHz radio frequencies for communication. 2Wire 2Wire is building a residential gateway to deliver broadband services to the home. The residential gateway is basically a box that sits inside your home and allows you to route content around your house to various computers and appliances. You're able to share Internet access, printers, listen to music on-demand, and add extra phone lines without any additional wiring. http://archive.org/details/HomeNetw2001