3Com 3CRWE50194 - Home Wireless Gateway User Manual - Homeconnect Wireless Gateway
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1 Welcome To Home Wireless
In today’s fast-paced world, communication and sharing information are
crucial. Computer networks are among the fastest ways to share information,
and wireless computer networks are rapidly becoming the most convenient
way of connecting computers. 3Com has brought this exciting technology into
the home with the HomeConnect
TM
Wireless Gateway.
The products that compose the HomeConnect line give you, the home user,
the same power, flexibility, and protection that has been available only to large
corporations. Now, you can network the computers in your home, connect
them all to a single Internet outlet, and harness the combined power of all of
your computers using both wired and wireless connections.
HomeConnect Wireless Gateway
The HomeConnect Wireless Gateway is designed to provide effective and
transparent management of both your home computer network, as well as
your connection to the Internet with the convenience of a wireless connection.
The gateway also provides protection in the form of an electronic “firewall,”
preventing anyone outside of your network from seeing your files or
damaging your computers.
As you can see in Figure 1, one computer is connected to the Internet. This
computer must always be powered on for the other computers on the
network to access the Internet.
Figure 1 Home Network Without a Wireless Gateway
When you use the wireless gateway in your network (Figure 2), it becomes
your connection to the Internet, as well as providing you with many other
options, such as network management, firewall protection, and roaming
Cable or DSL
modem
Internet