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With dozens of presentation slides, including outlines, schematics, photographs and screen shots, Jim and Bruce covered every aspect of setting up a home network. This ranged from definitions, terms and concepts, all the hardware needed, sample configurations, a “hands-off” demo, clues to what can go wrong, and guidelines on how to go back and do it right the next time. Now, most of these things really are complicated; so Jim and Bruce had to skim through much of the details. The real focus of the presentation was to walk through the set-up of a basic wireless network, with the completion underscored by an on-stage “hoop trick” showing that there was no physical connection between the network and its operators. View Bruce & Jim's Presentation |
| Allan Ostergren is editor of dacs.doc, a former president of DACS, and not afraid to ask someone else to help with the technical stuff. |
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The last time DACS had a presentation on home networking,
I saw a member leaving early. I asked if she had learned something
about wiring her home, and she replied “enough to know I
should hire someone to do it for me.” Well, for the novice,
wireless networking isn’t exactly a piece of cake either,
but DACS gurus Jim Scheef and Bruce Preston, certainly layered
it up with plenty of icing.