Re: XP Home networking limits

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From: Rick \ (rick_at_mvps.org)
Date: 06/03/04


Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 20:57:36 -0400

How many can you support? There is a five connection limit for WInXP Home,
meaning that you can only have five machines accessing any given machine,
but the number that you can network together is limited solely by the
equipment you are using.

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"BT" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1794701c44900$cac592f0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> How many XP Home machines can you put on a peer-to-peer
> network before problems start occurring and limits are
> reached? And what kinds of limits are there to running XP
> Home - like, how many XP Home PC's can be on a single
> network?


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