Hi Yumin, > We are going to connect the 4-computer as > a home network to share files and printers > and Internet. What is the best way to do? > Buying hub or router or ...
You'll need a network card in each computer, a hub, and a bunch of CAT-5 cables to connect everything up. You'll also have to set up one PC as a gateway, but rather than just connecting a Windows box to the net and turning on Internet Connection Sharing, a better idea is to use something like Smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org). If you're buying things for this, make sure you get 100Mbps or 10/100 switchable - it hardly costs anything more but runs 10 times as fast. Cheers Jon ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
