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Home is where the network is.(Special Home Computing Section)(Cover Story)

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| September 01, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2002 Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

If your household is among the 23 million nationwide that have more than one personal computer, it may be time to consider networking them. If the phrase "networking your home" brings up images of goofy home-automation concepts like the Internet-enabled refrigerator, you may need to shake off the aftereffects of the late, great dot-com marketing blitz. The networking this report is about has nothing to do with computerizing your kitchen. Networking your home means creating communication links among your computers so that they share a high-speed Internet connection, printers, and data files.

Two-thirds of homes with broadband that have more than one computer are ...

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