Setting up a Home Network
Srikanth Gunda
Wilmington University

1. Overview of wireless networking technology
There are various types of wireless network which are wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), Wireless personal Area Network (WPAN), Wireless mesh Network. Wireless networks are convenient in home network, small schools and offices. Wireless network are basically suitable to interconnect cell phones and computers, printers, TVs which helps in easy communication.
Wireless network uses radio frequency rather than wire to communicate. Clients unite their gadgets which helps to communicate Wireless access points. The speed is relative to distance between the transmitter and receiver due to the utilization of radio frequency; consequently, the closer the client is to the transmitter the more the speed is. 2. Advantages of wireless networking technology
Wireless networking technology gives various benefits to the household and office use, some of these benefits are below:- I. Most of the working class families have few computers which are arranged in various rooms. It is expensive, and time-consuming to introduce cables to a network that are situated in rooms which helps them to impart the broadband communication hence a wireless router resolves the issue. II. As the clients stay in the coverage of the signal, he/she can move their gadgets easily around the house. This protects hours of cable reconnection as the gadgets can get web by long wireless facility. III. A wireless network makes it conceivable to get file and printers from anyplace in the house in light of the fact that printers are associated with one of computers in the network which is imparted by all the computers. 1. Security issues of wireless networking technology
Wireless networks have safety issues on the grounds that they submit information through radio frequencies and are susceptible to hackers if they are not secured. Hackers caper this opportunity to steal or crush data, access to the system and begin assaults which connect network bandwidth and deny access to approved clients.
In spite of these issues, there are approaches to protect wireless networks. One common methodology is the utilization of access limitations at the access points. The limitations are encryption and look out for MAC address. 2. Description of home wireless networking solution
To setup a household network, the first step is to figure out which gadgets need to be associated and how they are joined. Majority of the gadgets will be hooked to the network through wired associations while others by wireless connection. 3. The architecture of the Home Network
The gadgets in a common home network are situated in various rooms and in this way in the proposed architecture we propose that gadgets inside the same room be interconnected by use Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) link CAT 5e, and interconnection way one room to alternate room be given by method of wireless connections. The network will be divided into five clusters relying upon their area. The description of the individual clusters is as per the following
Cluster A - The living room. This cluster will host the following devices * Television * Home Theater * Dish Network * Play station.
Cluster B – The Library or Home office
This cluster will host the following devices * Desktop PC * Printer * Network attached storage.
Cluster C- The Bedroom
This cluster will host the following devices * Television * Xbox360
Cluster D- Main wireless router
The devices in this cluster will give the association with the outside world and will incorporate an ADSL modem, a wireless router and a firewall.
The physical architecture of the network in Fig. 1 shows interconnection of the individual through wireless bridges and for security reasons the association with the web goes by means of a firewall.

Cluster E- Mobile wireless devices.
This cluster will have cell phones, for example Mobile phones Tablets, Laptop computers and any other WIFI versatile gadget.

Fig. 1: The architecture of the Home network
References:
Home Network, Wireless Network and Computer Networking Made Easy http://www.home-network-help.com/ Connected Home - Easy Home Networking Guide
http://www.connectedhome.infopint.com/