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• How To: Diary of a New Home Network - Part 3*
  Thursday 16 February 2006 – 03:40
  In this final installment, Tim Higgins makes a bonehead move during cable termination and shares lessons learned from the whole escapade.
• How To: Diary of a New Home Network- Part 2*
  Wednesday 2 November 2005 – 07:40
  Tim Higgins is back with Part 2 of his new home network adventures. This time it's all about the connections - wall plates and patch panels, that is.
• How To: Diary of a New Home Network- Part 1*
  Tuesday 18 October 2005 – 08:40
  Designing a system to distribute communications and electronic entertainment services around a new home can be a daunting task. But with the right approach, you don't have to be a master of the home networking universe to do it, and you might even have fun! Tim Higgins recently did just that.
• How To: Manually Setting Up the Linksys WRE54G Wireless-G Range Expander*
  Thursday 2 September 2004 – 08:32
  Linksys' WRE54G Wireless-G Range Expander [reviewed here] is a WDS-based 802.11b / g repeater that Linksys says works only with its WAP54G access point and WRT54G and WRT54GS wireless routers. But with a little effort, you can get it to function with any 802.11b or g product that supports WDS-based bridging and/or repeating.
• How To: Tips for Fixing XP File and Printer sharing*
  Tuesday 6 January 2004 – 05:42
  Users of WinXP and Win2000 frequently can connect to the Internet, but have problems getting File and Printer sharing to work properly. Sometimes it doesn't work at all, sometimes only some machines on a network can share, and sometimes machines can share, but only in one direction.
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• How Animé is Changing Gaming*
  Saturday 29 October 2005 – 07:00
  A look at this popular cultural trend from the female perspective.
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• How To: Sniffing the Air*
  Wednesday 28 September 2005 – 05:33
  The nice thing about wireless LANs is that you don't have to be physically connected to use them. But that strength also opens the door to security problems. Derek Boiko-Weyrauch shows you how a popular open source tool can be used to keep tabs on WLAN activity.
• How To:Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 - Part 3 - Adding an iTunes server*
  Tuesday 24 August 2004 – 03:31
  Our third installment of Jim Buzbee's series walks you step-by-step through adding iTunes serving to the tricks that Linksys' little wonder can perform.
• How To: Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 - Part 5- Moving to Unslung*
  Thursday 7 October 2004 – 03:15
  In Part 5 of his Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 series, Jim Buzbee introduces us to the Unslung firmware that is the next step in the evolution of this little box into a general-purpose Open Source application platform.
• How To: Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 - Part 2 - Adding NFS*
  Tuesday 10 August 2004 – 05:30
  In the second installment of Jim Buzbee's explorations of Linksys' little NAS-enabling marvel, he explains how to get set up to do your own hacking and walks us through adding NFS support.