For cabling between non-adjacent rooms (as with second-floor and first-floor rooms, or from upstairs to the basement), Ivens reminds us, "Gravity is a great assistant." Even with rooms on the same floor, it's better to go up above the ceiling or down below the flooring to run cables, rather than drilling through multiple walls to run cables through rooms that will not be on the network.
There are not as many opportunities for elegant illustrations as in the previous Annoyances (Excel Annoyances, Internet Annoyances) I've used, but Ivens uses them well. I found the annoyance titles in the Table of Contents the best way to search for a particular answer in this book—the index is less complete than the earlier volumes. The cover design is deliberately skewed and torn-looking. This is a graphic choice, not a misprint, in case you're judging the book by its cover.
If you have more than one computer at home, you can use them more effectively in a home network, and you will need this book—either that, or an IT tech living in the basement.
Unlike the previous ANNOYANCES books, this one has green as the second color. It is much easier to read, yet the command lines stand out from the rest of the text.
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