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Magazine articles on network hardware, security, and management.

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PC World December 2003 Scott Spanbauer	Ultimate Network Security: How to Install a Firewall Everything you need to know about selecting and installing a firewall for your PC or network.
PC World November 2003 Sean Captain	Warp-Speed Wireless New 802.11g networks are fast, flexible, and more secure, but setup glitches remain. We test nine Wi-Fi kits to find the best gear for today's applications -- and tomorrow's.
PC World November 2003	Features Comparison: Netgear Zooms Ahead The Best Buy wireless networking kit proved fast and reliable in our tests. We were also impressed with the easy installation and advanced security of the number two Linksys and number three Belkin products, and the breakneck speed of the sixth-place U.S. Robotics Wireless Turbo kit.
PC World November 2003 Dennis O'Reilly	Expand a Wireless Network's Range Buffalo and D-Link repeaters boost access point signal's strength and distance.
PC Magazine October 28, 2003 Craig Ellison	Instant Internet Cafe The ZyXEL ZyAIR B-4000 wireless service gateway is best described as an Internet hot spot in a box.
Home Toys October 2003 Patrick Kinney	ZigBee Technology: Wireless Control that Simply Works An association of companies is working together to create a very low-cost, very low-power-consumption, two-way, wireless communications standard.
Home Toys October 2003 Kurt Sherf	The Market For Ultra-Wideband Solutions We readily acknowledge the challenges inherent in forecasting a networking solution as broadly-positioned as UWB. However, we simultaneously would caution against the over-hype that has been associated with previous "revolutionary" technologies.
Home Toys October 2003 Yuanzhe Cai	Public Hot Spots: One Truth and Two Myths Independent start-ups and equipment vendors started the hot-spot movement as a means to challenge the dominance of telecom carriers. The current hot-spot market is undergoing a transition. The bottom-up movement continues, but top-down approaches from incumbent carriers are also emerging.
PC Magazine October 14, 2003 Craig Ellison	Share a Dial-Up Connection If a phone line is all you can use, consider sharing it with the ActionTec Dual PC Modem -- it can even support a WiFi access point.
PC Magazine October 14, 2003 Craig Ellison	Wireless Security: WPA Step by Step Here's how to set up extra-strong encryption -- WPA -- on your network hardware.
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