With the rise of higher speed wireless networking technologies, from 802.11g high-speed wifi to the pervasiveness of bluetooth and its kin with short-range wireless communications, it's becoming more and more difficult to determine whether it makes any sense to pay...

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I have an Airport Express device and would really like to use it to enable a wireless printer on my local network. I know it can do that, but I have no idea how to hook it all up. Can...

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I don't know what the story is, but sometimes I go to places and my Mac automatically connects to the wireless network, but other times it requires that I select the network. The password to the network is in my...

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I have just set up a wireless connection at home - whenever I log on it says that the connection is unsecure - how do I secure it? I have a new Toshiba Laptop and a Phillips Router. I saw...

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Hey bro! I'm staying at a campground and when I connect to the wireless network, I get a warning that there are all these other computers connected from my PC-cillin program, and it asks me if I should trust them...

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I've been reading about the newest wireless standard called 802.11n and am unclear whether it's a smart upgrade or not. My geek friend tells me that it's not an "approved" standard and that there's a risk that what I buy...

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I have high speed Internet through my cable provider and am about to buy a palm pda, not one that has a phone in it though, anyway it says it can get on the internet with a wi-fi connection and...

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I travel a lot and often find myself needing to chat with colleagues back at the office via instant message (usually MSN but sometimes Yahoo). Problem is, I really don't want everyone else in the café using the open wireless...

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Hey Dave! I have a Sony PSP and was wondering if I buy a wireless base station how do you set it up and are there any programs that i have to install?...

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I'm not too sure what the differences are, but my brother asked me if the Sony PSP supports 802.11 "b" or "g" and I really don't know. He also asked if it can connect to a WPA-based network, or just...

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I'm planning on traveling through Mexico and Central America for a few weeks in the spring and am wondering about the availability of wireless Internet connections in the major cities. Do you have any tips for me?...

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A bunch of buddies and I want to set up a wireless network for our apartment building, but the wifi systems we've experimented with seem not to have sufficient range. We'd like to have it cover a few blocks, rather...

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