Sami asked:


I have 2 computers, one wireless other wired, both connected via a Linksys WRT54G router. I want to transfer files between the 2. Both are running windows xp. When I try to create home network between the 2 computer, I am only seeing “Setup a wireless network for home or office”. How do I create a connection between these 2 computers when one is wireless other is not. Which setup should i run and on what computer, please be detailed.

Bruce Tzu asked:


How do you network? I mean say you are at a mixer or business function. Do you just approach the individual and say I’m so and so and this is what I do?

Also what are the typical places people go to network?

Evan asked:


I have a younger brother who has a tendency to connect to our neighbor’s unsecured wireless network that has faster internet rather than our own. His computer is running Windows Vista Home Premium. Is it possible to restrict his computer to just connect to our network? I’ve removed the other network from his preferred network list, but he still connects manually. Can anything be done?

raji asked:


1 Introduction

Ad hoc networks are a new paradigm of wireless communication for mobile hosts (which we call nodes). In an ad hoc network, there is no fixed infrastructure such as base stations or mobile switching centers. Mobile nodes that are within each other’s radio range communicate directly via wireless links, while those that are far apart rely on other nodes to relay messages as routers. Node mobility in an ad hoc network causes frequent changes of the network topology. Military tactical operations are still the main

Application of ad hoc networks today. For example, military units (e.g., soldiers, tanks, or planes), equipped with wireless communication devices, could form an ad hoc network when they roam in a battlefield. Ad hoc networks can also be used for emergency, law enforcement, and rescue missions. Since an ad hoc network can be deployed rapidly with relatively low cost, it becomes an attractive option for commercial uses such as sensor networks or virtual classrooms.

1.1 Security goals

Security is an important issue for ad hoc networks, especially for those security-sensitive applications. To secure an ad hoc network, we consider the following attributes: availability, confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation.

Availability ensures the survivability of network services despite denial of service attacks. A denial of service attack could be launched at any layer of an ad hoc network. On the physical and media access control layers, an adversary could employ jamming to interfere with communication on physical channels. On the network layer, an adversary could disrupt the routing protocol and disconnect the network. On the higher layers, an adversary could bring down high-level services. One such target is the key management service, an essential service for any security framework.

Confidentiality ensures that certain information is never disclosed to unauthorized entities. Network transmission of sensitive information, such as strategic or tactical military information, requires confidentiality. Leakage of such information to enemies could have devastating consequences. Routing information must also remain confidential in certain cases, because the information might be valuable for enemies to identify and to locate their targets in a battlefield.

Integrity guarantees that a message being transferred is never corrupted. A message could be corrupted because of benign failures, such as radio propagation impairment, or because of malicious attacks on the network.

Authentication enables a node to ensure the identity of the peer node it is communicating with. Without authentication, an adversary could masquerade a node, thus gaining unauthorized access to resource and sensitive information and interfering with the operation of other nodes.

Finally, non-repudiation ensures that the origin of a message cannot deny having sent the message. No repudiation is useful for detection and isolation of compromised nodes. When a node A receives an erroneous message from a node B, non-repudiation allows A to accuse B using this message and to convince other nodes that B is compromised.

There are other security goals (e.g., authorization) that are of concern to certain applications, but we will not pursue these issues in this paper.

1.2 Challenges

The salient features of ad hoc networks posses both challenges and opportunities in achieving these security goals.

First, use of wireless links renders an ad hoc network susceptible to link attacks ranging from passive eavesdropping to active impersonation, message replay, and message distortion. Eavesdropping might give an adversary access to secret information, violating confidentiality. Active attacks might allow the adversary to delete messages, to inject erroneous messages, to modify messages, and to impersonate a node, thus violating availability, integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation.

Secondly, nodes, roaming in a hostile environment (e.g., a battlefield) with relatively poor physical protection, have non-negligible probability of being compromised. Therefore, we should not only consider malicious attacks from outside a network, but also take into account the attacks launched from within the network by compromised nodes. Therefore, to achieve high survivability, ad hoc networks should have a 2 distributed architecture with no central entities. Introducing any central entity into our security solution could lead to significant vulnerability; that is, if this centralized entity is compromised, then the entire network is subverted.

Thirdly, an ad hoc network is dynamic because of frequent changes in both its topology and its membership (i.e., nodes frequently join and leave the network). Trust relationship among nodes also changes, for example, when certain nodes are detected as being compromised. Unlike other wireless mobile networks, such as mobile IP [21, 48, 34], nodes in an ad hoc network may dynamically become affiliated with administrative domains. Any security solution with a static configuration would not suffice. It is desirable for our security mechanisms to adapt on-the-fly to these changes.

Finally, an ad hoc network may consist of hundreds or even thousands of nodes. Security mechanisms should be scalable to handle such a large network.

1.3 Routing Protocol and Threats

Routing protocols for ad hoc networks are still under active research. There is no single standard routing protocol. Therefore, we aim to capture the common security threats and to provide guidelines to secure routing protocols. In most routing protocols, routers exchange information on the topology of the network in order to establish routes between nodes. Such information could become a target for malicious adversaries who intend to bring the network down. There are two sources of threats to routing protocols. The first comes from external attackers. By injecting erroneous routing information, replaying old routing information, or distorting routing information, an attacker could successfully partition a network or introduce excessive traffic load into the network by causing retransmission and inefficient routing.

The second and also the more severe kind of threats come from compromised nodes, which might advertise incorrect routing information to other nodes. Detection of such incorrect information is difficult: merely requiring routing information to be signed by each node would not work, because compromised nodes are able to generate valid signatures using their private keys.

To defend against the first kind of threats, nodes can protect routing information in the same way they protect data traffic, i.e., through the use of cryptographic schemes such as digital signature. However, this defense is ineffective against attacks from compromised servers. Worse yet, as we have argued, we cannot neglect the possibility of nodes being compromised in an ad hoc network. Detection of compromised nodes through routing information is also difficult in an ad hoc network because of its dynamically changing topology: when a piece of routing information is found invalid, the information could be generated by a compromised node, or, it could have become invalid as a result of topology changes. It is difficult to distinguish between the two cases.

On the other hand, we can exploit certain properties of ad hoc networks to achieve secure routing. Note that routing protocols for ad hoc networks must handle outdated routing information to accommodate the dynamically changing topology. False routing information generated by compromised nodes could, to some extent, be considered outdated information. As long as there are sufficiently many correct nodes, the routing protocol should be able to find routes that go around these compromised nodes. Such capability of the routing protocols usually relies on the inherent redundancies — multiple, possibly disjoint, routes between nodes — in ad hoc networks.

2. Key Management Service

We employ cryptographic schemes, such as digital signatures, to protect both routing information and data traffic. Use of such schemes usually requires a key management service. We adopt a public key infrastructure because of its superiority in distributing keys and in achieving integrity and non-repudiation. Efficient secret key schemes are used to secure further communication after nodes authenticate each other and establish a shared secret session key. In a public key infrastructure, each node has a public/private key pair. Public keys can be distributed to other nodes, while private keys should be kept confidential to individual nodes. There is a trusted entity called Certification Authority (CA) [11, 47, and 26] for key management. The CA has a public/private key pair, with its public key known to every node, and signs certificates binding public keys to nodes. The trusted CA has to stay on-line to reflect the current bindings, because the bindings could change over time: a public key should be revoked if the owner node is no longer trusted or is out of the network; a node may refresh its key pair periodically to reduce the chance of a successful brute-force attack on its private key. It is problematic to establish a key management service using a single CA in ad hoc networks. The CA, responsible for the security of the entire network, is a vulnerable point of the network: if the CA is unavailable, nodes cannot get the current public keys of other nodes or to establish secure communication with others. If the CA is compromised and leaks its private key to an adversary, the adversary can then sign any erroneous certificate using this private key to impersonate any node or to revoke any certificate.

A standard approach to improve availability of a service is replication. But a naive replication of the CA makes the service more vulnerable: compromise of any single replica, which possesses the service private key, could lead to collapse of the entire system. To solve this problem, we distribute the trust to a set of nodes by letting these nodes share the key management responsibility.

3. Push! Photo: Informal Photo Sharing in Ad-Hoc Networks

As mobile camera phones become ubiquitous the practice of photography changes. Camera phone pictures are usually taken with sharing in mind. Meanwhile, publicly sharing photographs online has become increasingly popular with websites such as Flickr. Push! Photo is a mobile photo sharing application where photos can be made public and immediately accessed by anyone nearby. The application also automatically searches for photos on nearby devices to find interesting and relevant photos. Push! Photo shows how it is possible to share digital photos just as easy as paper photos.

Shoot!

Publicize!

Discover!

Enjoy!

3.1 THE PUSH! PHOTO PROTOTYPE

The current prototype of Push! Photo allows photos to be made public, and users can browse their own photo collection as well as those of others nearby. When devices are in proximity of one another, they will automatically start to search each other’s public photo collections for

Photographs relevant to one self. These photos are shown as a multi-picture slideshow, which is extended as new photos are found. To browse photos from an event shown in a particular photo the user can click on that picture in the slideshow. The application will then download all photos from nearby devices taken at that event. In this way, if a user spots an interesting picture in the slideshow, she can easily find more photos from the same occasion. To decide

Whether two photos are from the same event, information about whom else was around and the time of shooting is used. The application implements a discovery service to find other devices when they are within Wi Fi-range. Thus the application is always aware of who else (using Push!Photo) is around at a particular time. As a photograph is taken, the resulting picture is tagged with this information together with the time and the identity of the photographer. The current prototype is an application running on

Pocket PCs with WiFi-cards and external SD-cameras

3.2 RELATED WORK

In previous work with Push! Music [2] music files were replaced with so called media agents which were enabled to autonomously copy themselves between devices over a wireless ad hoc network. The media agents try to find their

way to potential listeners as users meet, and as a song is copied it automatically enters the play list. In this way the users discover new music while passively listening. Other projects have looked at mobile photo sharing. Davis et al. in MM2 uses the notion of co-presence to simplify the decision of with whom to share [1]. Photos are then uploaded automatically to a central web server where the sharing recipients can access the photos. Kohno and Rekimoto instead use GPS information and time stamps to decide if pictures are from the same event or not [4]. This is used to let users easily browse each others photos when standing in a group to serve as a topic of discussion. The system also let users drag and drop pictures between your own and other’s devices. As a contrast, Push! Photo aims to look into how mobile sharing can be simplified by allowing seamless sharing, and using context and tagging to automatically find interesting and relevant photographs

4 Conclusions

In this paper, we have analyzed the security threats an ad hoc network faces and presented the security objectives that need to be achieved. On one hand, the security-sensitive applications of ad hoc networks require high degree of security; on the other hand, ad hoc networks are inherently vulnerable to security attacks. Therefore, security mechanisms are indispensable for ad hoc networks. The idiosyncrasy of ad hoc networks poses both challenges and opportunities for these mechanisms. This paper focuses on how to secure routing and how to establish a secure key management service in an ad hoc networking environment. These two issues are essential to achieving our security goals. Besides the standard security mechanisms, we take advantage of the redundancies in ad hoc network topology and use diversity coding on multiple routes to tolerate both benign and Byzantine failures. To build a highly available and highly secure key management service, we propose to use threshold cryptography to distribute trust among a set of servers. Furthermore, our key management service employs share refreshing to achieve proactive security and to adapt to changes in the network in a scalable way. Finally, by relaxing the consistency requirement on the servers, our service does not rely on synchrony assumptions. Such assumptions could lead to vulnerability. A prototype of the key management service has been implemented, which shows its feasibility. The paper represents the first step of our research to analyze the security threats, to understand the security requirements for ad hoc networks, and to identify existing techniques, as well as to propose new mechanisms to secure ad hoc networks. More work needs to be done to deploy these security mechanisms in

an ad hoc network and to investigate the impact of these security mechanisms on the network performance.

5 Acknowledgments

I would like to thank my friends for their invaluable contributions to this work. I am also grateful to my family and the anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions that helped to improve the quality of the paper.

I am grateful to Almighty for His blessings upon me.

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Muthu Senthil Kumar M asked:


 

Hardware Used in Storage Backup and Recovery

By: Muthu Senthil Kumar M

This article mainly related with storage backup and recovery. It describes what are all the hardware’s used in the storage backup and recovery technologies. So many hardware components used in the Storage Backup areas. It is not the article to bring out the functionalities of that hardware parts. It gives the information and related technical details of that hardware used in the storage backup and recovery technology.

There are three main important hardware’s are used in the storage backup and recovery technology. They are Server, Subsystems and Switches. Each one has its own hardware parts. Let’s see the information and technical details of this hardware parts.

Server Master Server

The Master server performs all Backup administrative functions and controls the backup scheduling for each media server. The requirements needed for Master Server,

· Processors

· Memory

· I/O Connectivity

· Operating System

· Backup Software

Media Server

The media server performs the backup operations under the direction of the master, with all backup data stored locally on the media server and its respective storage devices. The same above Master Server requirements are applicable to Media Server also.

DAS, SAN, NAS Storage Subsystems

Direct attached storage (DAS), storage area network (SAN), and network-attached storage (NAS) are the three basic types of storage subsystems used in Storage backup hardware management. DAS is the basic building block in a storage system, and it can be employed directly or indirectly when used inside SAN and NAS systems. NAS is the highest layer of storage and can be built on top of a SAN or DAS storage system. SAN is somewhere between a DAS and a NAS.

 

Hardware used in the Storage subsystem

SCSI

It is abbreviated like Small Computer System Interface. It is the famous storage subsystem component used in all medium and small level computer interfaces. A mechanism called ‘Cable Sharing’ used here. It can support the data transfer rate up to 320 MB/s.

PATA

Parallel Advanced technology Attachment is shortly named as PATA. It can support data transfer up to 133 MB/s. Nowadays SATA replaces this PATA in all areas. But the recent version UDMA133 is used in some subsystems depends upon the customer requirement.

SATA

Serial Advanced Technology Attachment is commonly known as SATA. It is the very common hard disk interface used in all personal systems. One SATA port permits one device to connect to it.

SAS

It means Serial Attached SCSI. The name itself tells, it can be seen as a merged SCSI and SATA interface. It has various data transfer rates like 185, 374, 750, and 1,500 MB/s. SATA devices can connect to SAS but SAS devices can’t connect with SATA ports. It is specifically designed for the high-end servers. SAS offers the best of SCSI and SATA.

FC

Fibre Channel has a main advantage of its length. It works the same like SATA, but it can covers the distance up to 2kms (Example: Single Mode Fibre). FC offers speeds of 100, 200, and 400 MB/s.

iSCSI

Internet SCSI is shortly known as iSCSI. It is normally used in all LANs. It is Low-cost alternative to FC. Easier to manage because it uses the common TCP/IP protocol and common Ethernet switches.

AoE

ATA over Ethernet. It is a very low cost alternative to iSCSI. It encapsulates ATA commands into low-level Ethernet frames and avoids using TCP/IP. A lot of add-on initiator/target software will support both iSCSI and AoE.

Ethernet Switches

A switch is something that is used to turn on or off various electronic devices. However, in computer networking, a switch is used to connect multiple computers with each other. Since it is an external device it becomes part of the hardware peripherals used in the operation of storage backup and recovery. This connection has done within an existing Local Area network (LAN) only and is identical to an Ethernet hub in terms of appearance except with more intelligence. These switches not only receive data packets, but also have the ability to inspect them before passing them on to the next computer. That is, they can figure out the source, the contents of the data, and identify the destination as well. Because of this uniqueness; it sends the data to the relevant connected system only, thereby using less bandwidth at high performance rates. Ethernet switches were used to provide connections and link aggregation between the backup clients, media servers, and master server using network speeds of 100 Mb/sec, 1 Gb/sec, and 10 Gb/sec.

SAN Switches

SAN switches were used to provide Fibre Channel connections between the Backup media servers and the tape libraries. The below listed companies are working with SAN switches worldwide.

fernandes_476 asked:


Ok so heres hows it is i have a wireless Access point downstairs and a wireless computer upstairs and i just got a wired com that i put in my room and i want to connect it to my wireless and share the internet through a LAN connection. The laptops wireless with windows vista but the wired computer has windows xp. Can anyone help me?

chronoel asked:


I was planning to set up a wireless network. The modem was supposed to be connected to the router and the router will be the one to be connected to the switches to distribute the connection to wireless devices. Is this possible?

cleverbird99 asked:


I have a wireless network: a wireless modem connected to a DSL line that connects wirelessly to my computer. My printer has a wired ethernet port. I have a spare router with wireless capability that I could connect to this printer. Without wiring my printer to my modem (they are in different rooms), can I use this router to get my wireless printer to talk to my computer – either via the modem or directly to my wireless card in my compter – whatever is possible. Thanks!

Winson Lim asked:


Introduction to Network Marketing

Network Marketing has been around for more than a decade and there are certain timeless principles that will never change in the network marketing industry. Never did I imagine that the network marketing industry has changed so much from the 80s. Most often, there are people who are always looking for the best network marketing company.

Have you ever met this kind of people before? I have. When I first started out in my network marketing career, I met different kinds of people.

Here are the types of people that I met:

1)    Genuine business opportunity seekers and builders

2)    Product consumers

3)    The supporters

4)    MLM Junkies

5)    001 syndrome

No doubt about that. I am sure that you have met these types of people in your network marketing business. Finding the best network marketing company is not wrong. But choosing the right MLM Company for you is crucial for your long term success.

5 Tips on Choosing the Best Network Marketing Company for you

1)    Choosing the right vehicle. What do I mean by that? Let me ask you a question? Why do you join this network marketing company in the first place? Choosing the right vehicle means to choose the right partners to do business with. You would not want to work with a company that is not profitable.

2)    Choosing the right management team. In order to choose the best network marketing company with the right management team, you must do your due diligence on these factors:

•    Their track record. Is the network marketing company backed by a solid track record?

•    Is team staying here for the long term? There are some network marketing company owners who build, burn and build again. You don’t want to invest in a company that is there today and gone tomorrow!

•    The vision. Does the company have the solid vision and are they actively working towards that vision?

•    The capacity to expand.

3)    A product that is in demand. No matter how good your company, management team, compensation plan or your upline is , a company will not survive if their product does not stand the test of time.

4)    The right trend. You want to be sure which stage of the company is in now. Understanding about the trend helps you to analyze the growth of the company.

5)    Working with the right people. It is best if you can do some networking first before deciding on joining the company. There is a lot of opportunity for you to ask questions and choose the right upline that you want to work with.

Why People Join Network Marketing?

Different people suits different types of network marketing company. The truth is that they have different traditions and way of doing things.

People join network marketing mainly is because:

1)    Looking for fast money

2)    Building a long term business with money coming in long after you have ‘retired’

3)    Investing in the product itself

4)    Meeting new people

5)    Growth and development

So let’s do an evaluation here. Why do you join network marketing? Is it all about making money? What is your intention behind it? These are very important questions to ask yourself when building your network marketing business.

Finding the right MLM Company suitable for you determines your success or failure as a network marketing distributor.

Network Marketing in the 21st Century

A lot of people have not understood the basic principles of prospecting as a network marketing distributor. They call their friends, relatives to convince them to join their network marketing business. Too often, there is too much emphasis on recruiting rather on thinking how to market out the product and business opportunity. A network marketing distributor who can market their business effectively is a leader. They are experts. They are good at marketing themselves in such a way that they will always:

•    Find the right target market

•    Find the right people to join their downline

•    Not waste their time on the wrong people

•    Attract the right people to them.

Being an effective network marketing distributor, you must possess these skills to build huge team of qualified downlines.

Conclusion

Finding the best network marketing company is the first step. Prospecting is the next step to build a team in your network marketing company. I would love to share with you the different online prospecting methods that I use to recruit hundred of downlines in less than 3 months.

But it will go on forever. Don’t worry. If you want more information and resources, simply go to my resource box and click the link. See you on the other side!

__Samiam asked:


I can pick up the signal which is very strong at my home. I can individually connect on my 3 computers but I would like to be able to network them as well (for the shared printer and folders). It seems that I can only connect to one network or the other and if I connect to the home network I don’t have internet. Any ideas on how I could bridge thm together? Thanks!
Essentially my question is – can a router be set up to grab the free hotspot internet while all my machines are on a local home network with the router between my machines and the internet connection?

mkting72 asked:


I know there are a lot of questions about wireless routers but I’ve tried all the advices and it still doesn’t work. I have an Acer Aspire 5630 laptop, and a D-Link wireless router. My broadband internet connection works fine when I connect the laptop with a cable, but it doesn’t detect the wireless connection (the computer’s wireless detecting option is on), I get secure signals from other people in my building, but not from my router. What should I do?

Liam H asked:


Ok i have asked several questions about how to send a wireless signal over a longer distance. I have also been looking online, i have heard talk of both wireless repeaters and wireless bridges. What is the difference?

Christian O asked:


It has always been a family tradition in our family to watch how the grinch stole christmas(the animated one) on christmas eve. But i cant find where it comes on tonight. Do you know what network it comes on

Colin Meunier asked:


(c) 2008 Colin Meunier

The Internet has become an integral part of lives and businesses today. Today, almost every business and professional has a set plan for their business on the online world. Of course, Internet has proved to be a economical way and means of communication and business. There are quite some businesses that are today turning towards the Internet to increase their sales and business. One major business that has meandered into the Internet world is Network Marketing. Apart from the usual advantages and benefits, Internet Network Marketing is quite different than Traditional Network Marketing. Here are some distinguishing points between Network Marketing and Traditional Network Marketing:

Internet Network Marketing Vs Traditional Network Marketing: Cheap on Resources and Finances

Right from the word go, Internet Network Marketing is quite cheap as compared to Traditional Network Marketing. Internet Network Marketing does not need very less or zero physical contact during the initial phases, and the initial phases is where you spend money on getting more people into your Network Marketing business with little or no guarantee of getting it back. For example, Internet Network Marketing does not need you to hold those small meetings and gatherings which are otherwise burning a hole in your pocket.

Apart from this difference, Internet Network Marketing does not require any major expense like a website. Of course, a website is essential for any Internet business, but it can be ignored at the initial stages. Also, you do away with the regular Traditional Networking Marketing costs like printing collateral like flyers, brochures and other necessary printed material.

Also, the Internet increases the productivity of any person, and with your productivity increasing, you will find that you have time to concentrate on other matters regarding the business, or simply that you can handle a lot of work yourself which you would have to hire others for otherwise.

Therefore, Internet Network Marketing is very less on resources too, as compared to Traditional Network Marketing

Internet Network Marketing Vs Traditional Network Marketing: Greater Reach

The Internet has converted the entire world into a small global village, and this applies to the world of Network Marketing too. With Traditional Network Marketing, you can expand your business to only your city, state or at the most your country and a few neighboring ones – which in itself is a tall order. But in the case of Internet Network Marketing, the whole world is your playground, and you are the one who decides where you wish to play this business.

The reach that the Internet has is tremendous, and it is a excellent tool for networking and marketing. A person just requires good business acumen and experience to tap this excellent resource of business and financial gain.

Internet Network Marketing Vs Traditional Network Marketing: Free or Very Cheap Advertising

Apart from all the other costs, Internet Network Marketing also requires much lesser advertising budget, and with the advent of Web 2.0 and article marketing and SEO, the advertising costs on the Internet are almost zero. All you have to do is to get a good content writer to write clear and concise information about your Network Marketing business and you are sure to get much more responses than compared to a month of radio, television and print media ads.

Michael Hutchins asked:


I realize that for adults on the social networking sites, many of these tips are common sense. As I point that out, I also know that nothing is “common” about common sense. The tips are not listed in order of importance. Here they are!…..

1.) Decide on the type of networking you would like to engage in.

Most people that are new to social networking are nor aware that different sites cater to different groups of networkers. Some sites are for people in particular age groups, others are for people with specifics hobbies and interests. Still other sites cater almost exclusively to business networking. Before you join a site, spend some time getting a sense of what type of networking is most popular. For the newbie to the networks, MySpace and Facebook are good choices. Generally, these sites have wide appeal to a large cross section of networkers with a wide variety of interests.

2.) Have A Plan When Putting Together Your Profile

Virtually all social networking sites provide members with a personal profile page. Unfortunately, many people spend very little time planning the content to be included in their profile.

WRONG!

Remember, people will usually review your profile before deciding if they want to contact you. The information that you supply can attract quality networking opportunities. Let people know, via your profile, exactly what type of online relationships you want to pursue. Answer ALL profile questions honestly, with no hidden agendas. Oh, and by the way, include your picture. People want to “see” fellow networkers!

3) Let The Online Relationship Develop Naturally

One of the biggest mistakes made by social networkers is to “force” their agenda on new contacts. This type of selfishness does not work in the offline world, so why would it EVER work online? Become acquainted with your contacts first. Let them know that you intend to be a useful resource. During this process of getting to know each other, both of you will discover if you have mutual intentions. Do not rush this process of discovery. It could provide the foundation for a very beneficial, long term, relationship.

4) Do Not Get Too Personal Too Quickly

This tip is in the ‘common sense” category, and is similar to tip #3. Personal experiences have prompted me to include this tip. I have been contacted by individuals, and within the 1st EMAIL, they are disclosing very personal information, even inviting me to come meet them!! This approach is dangerous and leaves a bad 1st impression. It is a definite “red flag” if individuals give you “too much information” too soon.

5) Do Not “Hit And Run!”

 

Many people make the mistake of joining too many social sites. In their excitement to begin networking, they fill out profiles to every site under the sun! These same individuals spend very little time navigating each site. They will also make the mistake of adding a bunch of “friends” at first, and never following up with them. This “hit and run” approach is not a good way to form online relationships. Only become a member of a site if you plan to become an active member of the community. Without active participation, you will never achieve trust within the group.

In Conclusion….

Hopefully, these tips, and your common sense, will make social networking more productive. If you are specifically interested in the adult social networks for business, the FREE curriculum at Renegade University is a perfect training ground. It is possible to earn while you learn marketing with video, articles, email, and even marketing to the Web 2.0 communities.

You will also learn how to brand yourself in the social networks, and how to gain access to FREE social media tools.

Jason Oickle asked:


To begin with, the concept behind network marketing is simple. Sharing – through product or business philosophy – is the basis of network marketing.

Network marketing is a multi-billion dollar industry involving millions of independent business people around the globe. Large companies like Gillette, Colgate-Palmolive, Kleeneze Europe, AT&T and others, have all turned to network marketing because of the very real edge it gives them in both domestic and international marketing.

Network marketing is a ‘BIG’ small business, which offers everyone, with or without business experience, the opportunity to start and run a home-based business that works. It is the last frontier where ‘the little guy’, (people like you and me) can make it BIG.

NETWORK MARKETING Vs. TRADITIONAL MARKETING

The traditional way of marketing products is to move them from a manufacturer through a network of middlemen. National Wholesalers, regional wholesalers, Cash & Carry warehouses, retailers, – the ‘middlemen’ – all add their ‘valueless’ percentage to the price of the product.

By the time the product or service reaches you, the end user, you’re not only paying for the product, but a percentage of the price for each and every middleman in the network.

In network marketing there are no middlemen. Instead of paying them, a network marketing company will pay you for whatever amount of product you cause to be ‘moved’.

As a sole individual operating alone, the amount of product or service provision you could ‘move’ from your own efforts, would be relatively small. In network marketing however, the amount you ’caused’ to be moved indirectly could be huge.

Here then is the essence of a network marketing compensation plan. For not only will you be compensated for the product or service provision you personally cause to be moved from your own direct efforts, you will also receive indirect compensation for the product or service provision that your ‘organisation’ ’causes’ to be moved.

YOUR ‘ORGANISATION’

To be successful in network marketing you will need to build an ‘organisation’. That is to say you will need to ’share’ the benefits of both the products/service provision and the business opportunity with others. In network marketing this is referred to as your ‘downline’.

The ’serious’ money to be had in network marketing is to be had from what is termed as ‘over-ride’ commissions from the ‘movement’ of product or service provision from the ‘downline’ your ’sponsor’ will help you to build.(In network marketing it is the responsibility of your introducing ’sponsor’ to help you build your ‘downline’.)

All you need to do initially to build a ‘downline’ is to ’share’ with others the information about the products or service provision and the business opportunity on offer.

Theoretically, if after ’sharing’ the information with others and you subsequently attracted just five SERIOUS individuals who decided to join you in your network marketing business – for illustration purposes only – your ‘downline’ could equate to the following after five levels of geometric growth:

You

You sponsor just 5 SERIOUS people into your business.

Your level 1/ 5

They duplicate your efforts and each sponsor 5 SERIOUS people.

Your level 2/ 25

These 16 duplicate your efforts and each sponsor 5 SERIOUS people.

Your level 3/ 125

These 125 duplicate your efforts and each sponsor 5 SERIOUS people.

A little arithmetic will tell you that’s theoretically a total of 3,905 people on your fifth level.

AN UNLIMITED INCOME POTENTIAL

Imagine the power of a business-building plan that would pay you an agreed ‘over-ride’ commission on each product or service provision ‘moved’ by each and every one of those 3,905 potential distributors in your downline. Network marketing then is about a LOT of people ‘moving’ a little product. The more people you introduce, the greater your income potential. Notice that I said SERIOUS people. You may find that you have to introduce 20, 30 or even 50 new distributors before you find a person who Gets SERIOUS about the business.

If you want to toss aside the potential earnings on offer as being ridiculous or impossible – DON’T. I personally have met people who are earning $5,000 to $50,000 per month (yes per month) from network marketing for part-time effort. Though the majority of networkers earn hundreds rather than many thousands per month, (most working part-time) it must be understood then that if you are to make serious income, you must put in serious effort. No free lunches here! The professionals in Network Marketing (those that earn HUGE incomes) recognise that to become successful you must “go through the numbers”. That is, sort through lots and lots of people until you find those people who get SERIOUS about the business.

There are two prongs to earning in Network marketing. First, is, of course, building a ´down line´. But remember, a large organization of people who do NOTHING other than sponsoring others, earns NOTHING!

Second is, BALANCE and CONSISTENCY. Spend some time building your organization yes, but also spend time PROMOTING your products/services to others and use the products/services yourself!

SO HOW DO YOU CONVINCE PEOPLE TO JOIN YOUR BUSINESS?

The simple answer is you don’t. You want those who convince themselves. If they are truly looking for a way to become successful, then they’ll come to you to go after it. The key to achieving success in network marketing is not to be had by convincing people, but by helping those (SERIOUS) people who want to become successful themselves.

WHERE DO I FIND PEOPLE TO JOIN ME IN MY BUSINESS

As it has been estimated that 20% of the UK working population – that’s approximately 6 million people – would be interested in starting their own business, the marketplace in the UK alone is truly enormous. With a recent MORI poll indicating that 50% of 16 – 25 year olds were interested in starting their own business, the marketplace is actually growing.

One of the most important things to recognise is that the most precious resource available to you is in the new blood – the millions of business opportunity seekers who are not presently involved in networking. For it is there that you will find the success stories of tomorrow for your downline organisation.

The impact of the Internet on network marketing will be absolutely HUGE.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT COMPANY

In any successful business it is the quality of the product or service that is being offered that is the single most important aspect for its success.

The most lucrative compensation plan in the world will NOT provide you with an on-going residual income if the product or service doesn’t provide tangible value and benefits for yourself and your customers.

Provide a product or service that people need, want, coupled with a business opportunity they are willing to tell their friends about and you can build yourself a business empire in network marketing!

TIPS FOR THE TOP?

Tip# 1/ If you’re already involved in a network marketing programe and you’re being ’sold’ primarily on the benefits of the compensation plan with the product or service being offered as a secondary consideration, then read the above paragraph again and MOVE to a company whose products or services ‘move’.

Tip# 2/ Ask yourself this important question: Is the network marketing programme I’m considering joining one that I’m willing to share with my friends and family? The comment “I don’t want my friends and family to know what I’m doing, l want to become successful first – then I’ll introduce them!!” is almost legendary in network marketing. (A comment oftimes made by failed networkers who had no real belief in the company or the products they were promoting in the first place!) If you immediately feel comfortable with the prospect of letting your neighbours, your friends and your family know about the network programme you’re considering joining, have belief in the company and its products/service provision, have confidence in your introducing sponsor, then you have probably chosen the right company to work with.

Tip# 3/ Don’t be impatient by expecting things to happen overnight! Building a moderately productive downline in any network marketing programme takes TIME – many months not many weeks.

Tip# 4/ Read tip 3 again and avoid like the plague any company which suggests otherwise or does not require you to invest in the development of a distributor base. If your prospective sponsor in the network marketing programme you’re being invited to join doesn’t stipulate that it takes TIME to build a significantly productive downline then it’s not a business your being invited to join but a game – and one you’re bound to lose!

Tip# 5/ If you want to dine with the classes – deal in products or services wanted by the masses!

If you have tried Network Marketing before and failed, you probably chose the wrong company, the wrong sponsor, or the wrong product.

IS NETWORK MARKETING FOR YOU?

A message from the Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Tony Blair MP to the Direct Selling Association.

” I’m delighted to offer my support to the Direct Selling Association and point out to you how big a part direct selling is of our domestic market in the sale of goods and services. We’ve got something like 13% of the entire home shopping market done by direct selling, almost half a million people are involved in direct selling and 40,000 of those are doing it full time…It also shows how, in a changing economy and changing labour market, there are great new opportunities out there.

I want to say to you that this is a good thing to be involved in and that we, as a Government recognise the tremendous contribution that people who are taking up direct selling opportunities can make to the overall prosperity of the economy. So it is well worth doing, well worth being involved in and I wish those of you who are engaged in it, the very best for the future.”

The above is the text of a video message given to members of the Direct Selling Association on the occasion of the DSA’s Annual Conference held at Hinckley Leicestershire on 5-6 May 1999.

TO SUM UP

Network marketing isn’t for everybody. While some people swear by network marketing, others simply swear! (Read tip No. 3 again to find out why). To succeed in network marketing you will need determination, commitment, enthusiasm and most importantly – a burning desire for success. If you believe you have those qualities get back to the person who provided you with this information TODAY.

Dr. Bugly asked:


I have 8 computers in my office network 4 wired and 4 wireless. I use 1 as a print server and shared file repository. I can access the shared resources with my hardwired computers but not with the wireless ones. All are running XP. I have no problem accessing the internet or another Linux server usng SSH from anywhere. Just the shared drives and printer on this machine. The wireless machines can see the other computes but just cannot connect to them. I am using a Sonicwall firewall/router and WAP encryption on the wireless network.

John D asked:


My son has found he can bypass the web site block on our router by connecting to a neighabor’s unsecure network, connect and then switch networks back to our wireless (w/ better signal/bandwidth) allowing access at his desire. I want to see if I can configure his computer to only access our home network – is it possible & how do I set it up?
Thanks

lexie asked:


I understand that I can get wireless internet connection if my laptop has a built-in wireless card for as long as I’m in a “hotspot” where I get connection from radio waves. How true is that? I am planning to get a laptop, but I’m not sure if where we live now is actually a “hotspot” or not where I could use it for regular web surfing? We do have broadband internet for our desktop now, but I don’t want to have a wireless router connected to that as it is connected to my work/company’s computer, I trust wired network better for that. If there is a DSL or Cable internet provider in our area, will that give a big possibility that I will be able to get good signal for the laptop’s wireless internet connection? Where do built-in wireless cards get their signals anyway? Is it possible that I will be getting a signal from other people’s wireless connection? Can anyone explain this to me? I’m all confused. Thanks a lot!