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Your Wireless Home

Ready to expand wireless networking from your home office into home entertainment? Here are some options to consider--and a few pitfalls to avoid--when you do.

Going Wireless

The new world of wireless entertainment awaits you, and we're talking about more than adding a set of speakers in the garage. Today you can easily move music around the house without wires. Tomorrow, perhaps, you'll stream movies to your television. That's not a simple proposition yet, but a number of wireless options are easier to perform and already work well.

There are two basic ways to take advantage of these products and cast off your wired connections: You can buy wirelessly enabled equipment, or you can purchase wireless adapters or bridges to connect wired equipment such as a gaming console, which usually has only an ethernet port. A wireless bridge or adapter lets you plug in via ethernet or USB to communicate with the networked content source, whether it be a PC containing audio or video files, or an online provider with lots of downloadable goodies.

Check out the find numbers in this article for links to wireless products that may meet your home entertainment needs. Many networking companies sell similar products, so if you don't find the right device from one, check others.

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