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Choosing wireless networking over more traditional wired networking has always troubled users, more than likely because they’ve seen lots of bad press regarding the wireless technology over the past few years. Unfortunately, these stories were not unfounded; with security-enforcing technologies such as Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) being demonstrably insecure, it’s little wonder it has taken wireless networking until now to penetrate the home PC marketplace as well as it has.
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© 2007 Jonathan Hassell and Tony Campbell
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(2007). Hooking Up Wired and Wireless Networks. In: Windows Vista. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0368-1_12
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