Networking Home Computers
Saturday, October 18th, 2008Have you ever thought about networking your smallest laptop at home? If you have a small collection of computers around the house (and a small collection of computer users), you can connect each one of those computers to one another and share data, software, and hardware including a single Internet connection. There are many creative uses for home networking, however it’s an ideal situation when upgrading each computer to the same capability is financially out of the question. On a home network, each computer has access to the equipment of the better machine in the group as if that equipment were their own.
Creating a home network can be accomplished by connecting either an Ethernet cable or Wireless connection. The easiest and cheapest method uses an Ethernet connection, which requires a series of network cards, a cable for each computer, and a router. A network card is used to communicate with every connected computer in the network.
You’ll want to first, select the computers that will connect to each other and then install the network cards inside each of them. Then you’ll connect a cable to each colored laptop computers that will communicate with the server. These cables won’t connect to the server directly. Instead, they′ll connect to the router. To enable Internet access for each computer, this router will need to connect with a modem of the host machine.
