In the past, most people had just a single computer in their home and nothing else. Access to the Internet was based on dial-up modems which were connected directly with a serial cable on the home computer. No Local Area Network was needed. The fast progression of modern technology and the adoption of broadband Internet access connectivity at homes, necessitates that home appliances should be networked to facilitate online access and to also communicate and share information between them.
When I say home appliances I mean computers, game consoles, printers, data storage devices etc. All of those devices need to communicated between themselves over a LAN, but also need to have high-speed access to the Internet. To achieve that, you will need to set-up a home network. With a home based network you are technically building a local area network, which can be wired or wireless, that networked devices communicate between inside the home, and also share the same internet connection.
The heart of a home network is a broadband router. This is most of the time an integrated wired or wireless device which allows you to build and setup a home LAN. This router shares the internet connection with your devices.
Once you have your home network setup, you can connect your computers, laptops, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, servers, network storage boxes, etc. After you successfully connect all your devices to the router, you can share and distribute your files over the network, have LAN parties on game consoles, play online video games, and share pictures between computer.
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#1 by Sandy bhai on September 11th, 2009
The cause of your problem is not obvious. The usual drill is to use a router, either wired or wireless (your choice); you can access the internet through the router. A printer can be connected to any of the computers, and accessed by others on the network if you enable such — but I have not had good luck in doing this (things get garbled), so we mostly use dedicated printers on each computer.
#2 by guzen on September 11th, 2009
Funny. I now understand this. As the person who established classroom by classroom subnets, connected to hubs that were connected to the classroom router, I never knew what the subnet masked did. Thank you.
#3 by Zero X on September 11th, 2009
you'll need an ethernet crossover cable, then allocate each computer a static IP address and then when one of the computers instigates a network game, the other will be able to see it
#4 by Muffy Sundance on September 11th, 2009
It would be better to get into the D-link.
Hit the reset button (small hole on back) with a pen or something on the back of router.
Then go to a browser and type 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.0, usually no username and password admin
Now start over. Make a username and password, set up a wireless web (ascii letters) passcode and that's that.
#5 by West Coast 916 on September 12th, 2009
#6 by youronmyfoot on September 13th, 2009
you can use two, peer to peer, and have one host the internet connection (ics), or you could use a router with a broadband ethernet port to host the internet, the router is a much better idea for future expansion.
#7 by wizkid04 on September 14th, 2009
Yes, use a Workgroup. Have you run the Network Wizard in the Control panel?
#8 by Pinky on September 14th, 2009
Network CD? What the hell? Don't overcomplicate it.
Connect the Mac and PC to the router. Now they're on a network. You have the printer connector to the router. It's now on the network. Install the printer driver on the Mac and the PC, then use the software that comes with it to connect to the printer.
Done.
Loaded it with the CD? Don't do that. Download the driver from the company website. That printer could've sat on a shelf for six months and a later driver could be available. There are also options for manually configuring the Mac to print if all else fails.