This review is from: Networking for Dummies, Sixth Edition:

Make no mistake, networking is NOT for dummies. I live with a network engineer who constantly tells me that this technology is out of my league (and I used to dread setting networks up on a previous job, though I could do it after a fashion.) My approach has been "monkey see, monkey do" or more accurately "monkey, push random keys and hope it all works." So if anyone needs a dummy book, yep, it would be me.

What I really like here is the start the book gave me in learning about networks. Even after HOURS of lectures at work on TCP/IP, ARPA services and other incomprehensibles, I failed to really grasp what the heck "gateway", "submask" and "workgroup" really meant. So I happily grabbed at this book, hoping all this Delphic language would reveal itself out of the fog of ignorance. I was partially rewarded.

The parts I liked best were the "ten big mistakes" and the "ten commandments of networks." There is a section on wireless and while it will help you set one up, the advanced security features you really ought to have (can you say "WAR-DRIVING and online banking don't mix?) are best left to more experienced persons than me. But this was a nice start, this book, and it's fairly readable in chunks or to answer specific questions.