By: Danny

home computer network

When beginning to design your home computer networking, you will have a wide array of choices to make. The first choice you will have to make is whether you want a cabled network or a wireless one. The various parts of this wireless system is made up of the following: Linksys wireless router, Linksys wireless adapter and the Linksys wireless card.

Today, cabled networks usually make use of Ethernet cables. File transfer techniques include peer to peer, FTP, IM software and share Windows folders. Theoretically the speed is limited by the cable. You will find the faster speeds in professional home computer networking.

Wireless devices are usually 802.11b or 802.11 g type. 802.11b operates at 2.4 GHz and 11 Mb and 802.11g at 2.44 GHz/54Mb. Some cordless phones as well as other popular home devices may interfere with your home computer networking. That is roughly 1/5 to 1/2 the speed of a DSL or cable Internet connection. One kind uses the wiring in your home to carry network signals. For the time being, it is best for most home network designers to stick to the standard choices.

Details Of Home Computer Networking

home computer networking

Since Microsoft released Windows for Workgroups, networking has become quite easy and very commonplace for most home computer users. Everything that is needed to set up a home network is built right into the computer’s operating system which was installed in the machine.

A home network enable File sharing or using the same printer or other input and outputs instead of buying one for each available computer. Let’s say that 10.1.1.5 or Computer Jack sends a file to 10.1.1.6 or Computer Jill. There is an address associated with each home. If there is no return address it just goes to the dead letter office. Home computer networks work in much the same way.

A home network comes in two main types: cabled and wireless. In a cabled network different wire bundles which are known as Ethernet cables with connectors on each end plug into either a network interface card, or NIC, in the printer, fax, computer or into a switch/router. Hubs or switches are simplified devices that allow physical connections between the components of a network.

A wireless network operates in much the same way. Let’s say that you want two computers within a home network to both be able to print on the same printer. The alternate set up connects the printer to the network and not to any individual computer;

Computer-Jack then just shares the printer by using software of the hosting system, Computer Jill. It is then attached to a router or switch by way of Ethernet cables or a wireless transceiver. Then each computer on the network is able to ’see’ the printer as a device that the computer can use. Every device receives an address and a name. Software on the device allows it to be configured so that its function is accessible to multiple computers on the same network.

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