Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.7 / 5.0

Long time Linksys fan:

I bought a Linksys 4 port router about 2.5 years ago (for about [money]!) so I could share my DSL connection throughout my enormous NYC apartment. With this book i got the skinny on updating my firmware, going wireless, keeping my neighbors out of my wireless network, and other cool stuff. It even touches on accessing PCs remotely on the network. Once you get the network running and the broadband working you tend to forget about security, updating, how cables are laid out, etc. This book gets and keeps you... more info

Linksys Networks: The Official Guide:

Incomplete and overly simplistic. The authors frequently use acronyms, but the glossary does not define them.

This book does not cover the 802.11g wireless routers, etc. It offers nothing usefull on the problems that I have encountered.

Perhaps the second edition will fix some of these problems.

Complete Waste of Time and Money:

I have never been more disappointed with a computer and networking book than this one. I learned absolutely nothing. This book is oriented towards the total novice. If you have any experience at all with computers then this book is not for you. The book assumes there are only two operating systems: Windows 98SE and Windows XP. Windows 2000 is mentioned a couple of times in passing. This book is oriented to those who believe that Windows 98SE and Windows XP are the only operating systems available. There was... more info

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