Re: Home Networking

From: Sooner Al (SoonerAl_at_somewhere.net.invalid)
Date: 10/17/04 

Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:46:04 -0500

It simply depends on how your connected to the public internet. In my case I have a cable ISP and
also have my home completely wired with CAT5. In my case I use a combination 4-Port Broadband
Router/802.11b/g Wireless Access Point to both share my cable broadband ISP and provide local
network connectivity, both wired (100 Mbps Ethernet) and wireless (802.11b/g), to clients. I use a
Buffalo WBR-G54 for that. Since I have 10 CAT5 drops throughout the house I also use an eight port
switch so all of the 10 drops are connected to my home LAN and the internet through the router. The
switch and router are connected together as noted on this page...

http://members.cox.net/ajarvi/LAN/The_Illustrated_Network.html

Prior to this setup I used ICS on one XP Pro box and the switch to both access my old dialup ISP and
allow other clients to access both the local LAN and the internet...

Other pages of interest...

http://www.timhiggins.com/
http://www.homenethelp.com/
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/ 

-- 
    Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)
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"daniel" <daniel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:EB744FDB-E72C-40A0-B7E7-AA92F302B2EB@microsoft.com...
>I am new to this field and just beginning to learn about computers.My house is
> wired with cat 5,currently only one computer is running.I am now in the
> process
> of adding 4 computers, and confused by suggestions on how to set-up the
> network.
> Do I need a switch and router?A switch only or router only?
> Thanks.

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