Pioneer Elite N-30 Front View
Pioneer Elite N-30 Networked Audio Player
Company: Pioneer Electronics
Price: $499.00 USD
Pioneer, a venerable name in home audio, has come up with a pair of interesting devices to better integrate the audio part of the internet and your own digital music library into your home audio system, the N-30 and N-50 Networked Audio Players. The Networked Audio Players are part of Pioneer’s Elite product line, noted for their excellent construction and superb audio quality. Pioneer foolishly loaned me an N-30 to evaluate. I say foolishly only because I seem to attract products for review that have fundamental flaws that cause me to write far too many negative reviews. Sadly, this is one of them.
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The Book of Wireless, 2nd Edition
A Painless Guide to Wi-Fi and Broadband Wireless
by John Ross
Nostarch Press
http://nostarch.com
January 2008, 336 pp.
ISBN-10: 1-59327-169-7
US $29.95
According to the back cover, John Ross’ The Book of Wireless, 2nd Edition is targeted at readers who want a broad overview of the whys, wherefores, and hows of wireless networking. That’s a big order to fill in 336 pages, including table of contents and index.
Here’s a brief list of topics Ross covers in The Book of Wireless (BoW2 from hereon):
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