InterNetworking

Recommendations for Creating a Robust Home Technology Integrator Channel

Learn what products rated the best in the first definitive test-lab comparison of video servers.

Trends in music consumption point to more portability and distribution over home networks.

It would be a wonderful world if there was only one compression format for all audio and video files and they could be played...

Hard drives are becoming the de facto standard for audio/video content. This translates into epic potential for the residential marketplace. Or does it?

Everyone seems to share the same vision that the home of the future will have some centrally located gigantic hard drive where all the...

Ethernet is becoming the transport mechanism of choice for all types of residential products.

You’ve just networked all of the computers, printers and Internet cameras for your client. You’ve installed a residential gateway and now everything successfully connects...

The network of CEDIA leaders is just as important to the success of our business as our technology knowledge.

Simply because a box of cable says Cat 5 or Cat 5e on the label is not a guarantee that the contents are compliant...

If you have only thought that Pocket PC PDAs were for business applications, then it's time to get re-acquainted with these devices.

Walk through the steps of connecting and configuring multiple computers and printers in this home networking primer.

I would like to review a valuable, yet often overlooked, aspect of the Windows XP operating system, known as File Transfer Protocol.

Integrating the right communicating thermostat into system design.

The need to provide rapid technical assistance when a home network problem arises becomes increasingly important as more and more electronic infrastructures rely on...

For effective design and management of home networks, it's essential to re-examine the fundamentals of the TCP/IP protocol.

With the recent ubiquity of multi-zone audio systems, it was a matter of time before video management entered the national conversation. At CEDIA EXPO...

Weinstock Media Analysis, a research and analysis firm led by Neal Weinstock, has completed a survey on issues critical to the custom installation industry....

This year at CEDIA EXPO, Crestron was awarded the Best Home Networking Product Award for its e-Control 2 system, an updated version of the...

There is a rising home networking trend that bodes a disturbing if not fearsome response from veteran residential system designers and installers alike.

Ten years ago, a virus had you bed-ridden and worms were for the birds. Today, anyone with a computer comes into contact with both...

Editor's Note: With the help of Weinstock Media Analysis (WMA), Residential Systems magazine is launching a new, long-term research initiative to learn many important...

When it comes to home networking, it seems that there are as many definitions as there are homes.

As the implementation of home networks increases, custom installers are forced to contend with an added number of unfavorable circumstances, especially when conducting retrofit...

According to the U.S. Consumer Product and Safety Commission (CPSC), over 40,000 fires are caused each year by residential electrical wiring. Over the last...

These are exciting times for the custom installer involved in high-end residential control systems. In just the last 12 months we have seen an...

Hard drive content management has the clamor of any burgeoning technology category. But unlike just any new product line, the hard drive systems genre...

One of the prominent themes emanating from this year's consumer electronics show (CES) held in Las Vegas last month was that digital audio and...

Customers say that it's the kind of place where they would like to stay for the weekend. It literally has all of the comforts...

In the grand scheme of things, it wasn't all that long ago. Two or three years back I was about to deliver a series...

The past few months for Texas-based control systems manufacturer, AMX, have been some of its strongest months to date. Not only has the company...

Today the audio video business is all about networking. A short time ago the term networking at CEDIA meant catching up with other dealer...

The show can't begin until the lights dim," says one lighting control manufacturer's home theater-related advertising and promotional literature. How true. After all, no...

In the traditional sense, home entertainment networks have allowed consumers to route audio or video throughout the house to different receivers (primarily TVs and...

The fully connected home, one in which data and information flow freely to empower devices with a new type of electricity, is the stuff...

Despite the efforts of trade associations, manufacturers and dealers themselves, on-the-job training is still one of the most relied-upon methods for learning the custom...

As the popularity of home networking in the U.S. increases, the demographics of those using the technology are evolving, according to a recent survey...

Technology born in the computer industry has been sneaking its way into mainstream home entertainment gear for decades. PC-grade processors, hard drives and networking...

In an effort to address the continually growing residential market, the Building Industry Consulting Service International, Inc.--more popularly referred to as BICSI--has come out...

Due to the larger bandwidth required to store a video signal, there has always been somewhat of an inequity when video and audio storage...

Little Neck, NY--Pulte Homes, the nation's largest homebuilder, has committed to making structured wiring a standard feature in its new homes and has signed...

The networking revolution is about to enter a new phase within the Internet Age. If you thought this business wave had washed on past...