Guest Column 2 – Geek News

Why is networking so hard? After all these years, it should be easy by now. In theory, it is. After all, every Windows computer has built-in file and printer sharing. (Please, no e-mails from Mac owners. I’m talking about the real world that most of us have to suffer in.)

Just turn it on and away you go, right? Well, maybe, maybe not. Something often goes wrong, even in the most basic of configurations. However, they particularly go wrong if you try to do something unusual, and all too often it’s because of lousy documentation and installation programs.

A case in…