Why do I want a home network?
If you have more than 1 computer in your house, you definately should consider networking them together:
- You will be able to work anywhere in your house and in most cases outside the house. Imagine sitting down on your favorite chair on your front porch and being able to use your laptop the check for that important email you were expecting from your kids.
- A home network will allow you to store all your needed documents in one place. How many times has one of your children sat down at the computer to work and the other one comes along and says they need to use the computer because they have homework too. Now the arguement can be avoided because they now access their files from any computer on your home network.
- If your computers are networked, that also means your internet connection is available for any of the computers. No more fighting about who wants to use the internet.
- You can purchase that awesome laser printer and not have to worry about it being tied to a specific computer. Every computer on your network can now print to it.
Hopefully after reading this, we have given you some ideas on the advantages of having a home network.
December 26th, 2006 at 5:58 pm
[...] Computer viruses can attack all computers on a network(including your home network if you have one), from your personal computer to a server that assists the entire organization. A server is basically the same as a personal computer, but because it serves more people, it has more memory, disk space, and processors to carry the workload. There are normally email servers dedicated solely to sending and receiving email. Most web pages are served on exclusive servers that only deal with web traffic of those pages. Some places, if they share quite a few files with others, may even have a server dedicated only to file transfers. [...]