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Home Network Sales Explode, as Consumers Seek to Link Personal Computers.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2002
By Grace Aduroja, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 21--As a busy graduate student at Northern Illinois University, Jeff Kirkton did not like being confined to a desk when using his laptop. So Kirkton and his roommate had a wireless computer network installed in their Hoffman Estates apartment.
Now Kirkton can study and print documents from the couch, kitchen or bedroom and not worry about tangled wires. "I just pick it up and move, and with that I'm able to do anything I want," he said.
Kirkton is not alone. Home wireless equipment has become so popular over the last year that it is outpacing corporate sales of similar networking gear. And with many families using more than one computer at home, many are opting...
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