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HOME NETWORKS HOME NETWORKS How to set up a computer network in your house, and whether a media PC will add to the fun here’s nowhere the Buy an Trichest man in the world would rather be 1adaptor than your living room. Microsoft boss Bill The first thing you need to set up your network Store video on Gates is betting that is a wireless (WiFi) adaptor. The best type for you your PC – play it computers will move depends on whether you’re connecting a laptop out of the study – and or a standard co
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HOME NETWORKS NEED TO KNOW A home network connects computers to other computers and to the internet. Send music It can also send music and video to wirelessly a hi-fi or TV. Wireless networks are particularly handy. You can wander to the shed with a laptop, say, and stay connected to the internet. To set up a wireless network, you need adaptors, Make the Connect to the known as WiFi, for 4 your computers network secure internet wirelessly (unless they have The problem with wireless links is tha
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HOME NETWORKS BEST BUYS ROUTERS AND ADAPTORS We recommend that you stick to the same brand for your WiFi adaptor and router. 2 Netgear This ensures that they’ll work well with each other. We’ve 1 Linksys NetGear laptop/ listed the matching desktop adaptor adaptors for each of our Best Buys. The Best Buy 2 NetGear WPN824 combinations of router and adaptor work well RangeMax 71% Linksys laptop for listening to music a £75 from online retailers adaptor couple of rooms away – through at least one
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HOME NETWORKS Media PCs A media PC is a Elonex Exentia computer that £1,199 from www.elonexshop.com receives TV and acts as a hi-fi or digital photo This is a Windows-based computer that uses album. It also apes a Microsoft’s Windows Media Edition Software. PVR (personal video The media software itself – which is available on recorder); you use a lots of other computers – is great. And it works Elonex simple on-screen brilliantly with the new Xbox 360 (see p49). menu to select TV However, we fo
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HOME NETWORKS AUDIO MEDIA SENDING MUSIC EXTENDERS AND VIDEO FROM The Best Buy audio reasonable range of your music sound too YOUR COMPUTER extenders are easy to file types – different glitchy and digital. set up and have clear formats of digital (The other models One of the handiest things about a computer instructions to help you music, for example. are just as good as the network is that you can use a TV or hi-fi to listen to through the process. We also make Best Buys on that music, watch v
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HOME NETWORKS Xbox 360 VIDEO MEDIA £287 in total from major high-street stores EXTENDERS Xbox 360 console £210 WiFi adaptor £60 The main difference that makes our Best Buy stand Remote control £17 out from other models is that it’s easier to set up and use. But it’s important to remember that none of On the tentative basis of the press sample we them is very good at streaming video wirelessly tried, the Xbox 360 tramples all over every other from your computer. Our Best Buy does stream model on
