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Poor Richard's Home and Small Office Networking: Room-to-room or Around the World (Paperback)

by John Paul Mueller (Author)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Top Floor Publishing,U.S. (Aug 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1930082037
  • ISBN-13: 978-1930082038
  • Product Dimensions: 25 x 17.8 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,797,792 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Today's businesses have multiple offices, mobile workers, telecommuters, and virtual offices. How do they all keep in touch, share information, and collaborate? This book offers an easy-to-understand explanation of the technology available for connecting employees. Readers will learn about inexpensive networking alternatives, software, installation, types of connections, security, and administration. The book also discusses how to use the Internet to communicate with instant messaging and file sharing. With the geek-free advice in this book, readers will discover the most economical and efficient way to keep in touch with employees and business contacts.

About the Author
John Paul Mueller has written 47 books including Windows 2000 Programming Bible, Visual Studio: The Complete Reference, Windows 2000 Performance, Tuning, and Optimization, and Dummies 101: Visual Basic Programming.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Superb book explaining SOHO networking in plain English, 8 Nov 2001
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This superb book is jam packed with technical detail and practical advice based soundly based on a foundation of real experience and reads well. It is a welcome addition to my bookshelf.
There are possibly a few minor weaknesses in the book which do not detract at all from its value, but of which the potential reader, whom I imagine to be someone running a business from home or the proprietor or manager of a small business, should be aware. The major of these is that it is "techno-centric" firmly focussing on the network and fails to provide a meaningful definition of its target audience, nominally the home office and the small office (SOHO). Professionally it is difficult to argue with the author's comments about the increased security offered by Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Netware as network operating systems or of his comments concerning the defects of the Windows 95, 98 and ME. Yet, lacking a clear definition of the SOHO environment, it was difficult to understand why he was so dismissive of these lower specification systems in precisely the area where they are an appropriate solution. There was no chapter detailing how a skills audit to identify whether there were sufficient skills in a small business to manage a network or not. Too often this task is assigned to the office IT champion or guru, whose real experience as opposed to their relative experience might be quite limited; or the business fee-earners add this task to their own already crowded list of functions to the detriment of their own performance. To be fair the book does recognise that the network users will need some training and support and that a well-founded server will chug along quite reliably for years without any intervention.
Given these criticisms, a businessman, taking a practical commercial perspective on this book, will be well armed for making decisions concerning the development of a network. Right from the start the author emphasises " ... some people choose the operating system first ... I ... look for applications first" and with typical common sense adds "Look at the job you want the system to do - then plan around your task - not what the industry wants to sell you". And from that point forward the book covers all major small systems network enabled operating systems and associated hardware and software issues and much more practical advice. The terminology is explained in plain English.
It's a great introduction to networking for the home user or small business man.
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3.0 out of 5 stars HOme & Small Office Networking, 25 Jan 2009
Poor Richard's Home and Small Office Networking: Room-to-room or Around the World
If you are buying something else and can get this for pretty much free then do so. These are very popular and I did find it useful, up to a point. It was more than I needed and I could have got what I wanted by researching the information online. Although relatively simple if you keep it that way, when reading this book I got to think networking and wireless stuff etc., etc., were more complex than they actually were, so in a way it put me off. Maybe there are better options out there and no one wants them online anymore.
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