Putting together your network can be an interesting experience given all the different types of hardware out there. Print servers, routers, switches, bridges, cabling, NICs…it’s enough to make a lot of folks very confused. I’ve shopped for networking things several times. The folks who work the stores are not always that knowledgeable (although they like...

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The most common reason for forming a home network is to share an internet connection. With broadband internet access becoming almost as common as television, people are today commonly sharing that single pipeline to the internet with all of the computers in their home. This is very easy to do with a home network. You can also do a lot of other things with a home...

A computer network is a setup where two or more computers communicate with each other. The connection between the computers is some kind of electrical connection, whether it be copper wire, fiber optic or radio waves. You might not have though about it before, but networks are everywhere. When you watch TV, you are getting data over a network. When you are...