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egl2004 · 04-18-2004, 02:26 PM

I'm helping friend of mine is to set up a home network. He has cat5 cabling running along side the phone line in his house and he is working on installing ethernet wall jacks. What do we need to do in order to set up a peer-to-peer network over this line? Right now he only has two computers he wishes to connect, but in the future, he wants others to be able to bring in laptops and connect to it. He does not want to connect his network to the internet. What kind of equipment does he need to buy and how should we go about setting it up? Any suggestions or information would be very helpful.

04-18-2004, 02:26 PM	#1
egl2004 Member (4 bit) Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 12	setting up a home network using built in cat5 I'm helping friend of mine is to set up a home network. He has cat5 cabling running along side the phone line in his house and he is working on installing ethernet wall jacks. What do we need to do in order to set up a peer-to-peer network over this line? Right now he only has two computers he wishes to connect, but in the future, he wants others to be able to bring in laptops and connect to it. He does not want to connect his network to the internet. What kind of equipment does he need to buy and how should we go about setting it up? Any suggestions or information would be very helpful.