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Network structure and management have their own lingo. Some of the terms thrown around will likely already sound familiar to you. Ethernet and Wi-Fi are largely self-obvious concepts, although it may require a little bit more effort to understand the intricacies of the different Wi-Fi standards. Knowing the meaning of these terms, and grasping the underlying concepts will help you to get a better grip on your own home or office network.
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For most people, home networking consists of knowing the wifi password; it's an oft-neglected yet significant topic that has a big impact on performance. If you have more than one computer in your house, home networking knowledge becomes essential. But there are many factors which can slow down a home network, often quite easily fixed.
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The LAN party is an event that started out of necessity. PC gaming was a thing well before the Internet, and no Internet meant no multiplayer – unless you took your machine to a friend’s house. Geeks had no choice but to descend on each other’s homes to play games togethers. The Internet has made local play somewhat obsolete, but LAN parties are still a lot of fun.
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Everyone is pretty familiar with all of the major Internet IM services, but companies and small businesses across the world have a similar need to allow people connected to a protected internal LAN with the ability to communicate via chat, without the need to connect to such outside IM services.
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The book Network Your Computer & Devices Step by Step written by Ciprian Adrian Rusen and co-authored by his team at 7 Tutorials thoroughly describes the process of creating an interactive and safe home network. Owing to its easy to follow step by step instructions and clear organization, the book is suitable for everyone who knows the basics [...]
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As family and friends gather for the holidays, there are some evenings where you may find everyone sitting around with nothing to do. One of the best ways to have fun with the whole family is by playing games together. Usually, people bring along laptops with them when they travel. Since most homes are equipped [...]
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Having the ability to print something you have typed or read is one of the most underrated things you can do with your computer. In some ways, in fact, your printer is a vital piece of your home or business network. In the past, we have taught you How to Build a Local Area Network [...]
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If you have a home network, or you are thinking of setting up a home network, you’ve probably considered two solutions – wired and wireless. And unless you desperately want the fastest download speeds possible, or you don’t trust wireless security, you probably have settled on wireless as the solution. Wireless networking, with its encryption keys and [...]
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You may often need an easy way to share your files and folders with other users or computers on the same network.  This may not be so much of a task on your home network where you have only a few computers and you might only need to share a folder or two every once [...]
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Welcome to the wonderful world of domains and active directory. I recently wrote a post about pushing out Internet Explorer parental control settings, using group policy. Group policy is great but when combined with Active Directory it becomes so much better! Active Directory is centralized network management at it’s best. There are lots of reasons [...]
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In this article I’m going to detail how to set up Wi-Fi to play networked games.  I have some friends that live in my apartment building. They wanted to set up a LAN so that we would be able to play games together without having to play over the Internet. We love playing fast paced [...]
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So you have a small home office or a few computers at home. Want to build a local area network to allow them to connect to each other? Occasionally, there are reasons for building a network without a router. Sometimes, to save money and other times for security. Depending on what you want to do, [...]
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If you are at home reading this then you are most likely connected to the Internet. Whether it is by a wireless signal or physical Ethernet connection, you are a part of a network. Your home network – all computers, routers, modems, etc – is called a local area network (LAN). A wide area network [...]
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You have decided to work on setting up your very own home wireless network so that your home computers and devices will be able to access the Internet or anything on your network from anywhere in your home. You are making a great decision and once you experience WiFi at home you will never want [...]
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So you want to have your machines go to sleep when they are not working and then be able to remotely connect to them and have them automagically respond? This is cross platform and can potentially work on any computer. The computers can be in a totally powered off state (but still connected to the [...]
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