Wireless is much easier to infiltrate than a wired network.
Wires Are Good, Too!
While wireless may be the ???hot new thing,??? wired networks have been around for decades and
continue to be used today, for several good reasons: they are faster, much more reliable, and
more secure than wireless networks (as mentioned in the preceding section).
Wired connections have one major con, though. When you are connected to an Ethernet
cable, you can??™t surf the Web from the sofa one minute and from the bed the next (at least not
unless you have a 500-foot Ethernet cable towing around behind you).
If you get used to the freedom of wireless, it??™s tough to go back to a hard-wired connection.
Really tough. One time I had serious problems maintaining a wireless connection, so I had to go
wired to finish my work. There were at least two instances where I almost dropped my MacBook
because, forgetting that I wasn??™t using wireless, I attempted to move to another room, and the
Ethernet cord wasn??™t as long as my destination was far. When the length of cable ran out, it
almost jerked my MacBook to the ground!
Network Setup Assistant Revisited
As previously mentioned, Chapter 5 covers how to use the Network Setup Assistant, so I
won??™t use the space here to cover the same ground.
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