be on it ALL AT ONCE?  Phones, Streaming Videos,webcams, webpages,  RSS feeds, email, etc. etc.,  How does this work in layman's terms?  I understand the concept of packets, but how many things can be on one wire at a time?\n\nThanks
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Thats one of the reasons that websites have bandwidth limits because their is always a limit to the maximum amount you can send down the lines. Packets make it easier because they break it up into pieces and allows many different messages to pass along the cable at once. Also the internet isn't just a single set of computers so the packets can take different paths to get to their destination. Hence the name web because its like a web of connections between different places. The source computer doesn't care how it info gets to its destination so if one set of lines is full it goes a different way. Don't forget the internet was inspired to survive a nuclear attack so even if a large chunk of it got taken out the messages would still hopefully reach their end target if it still existed. Also don't forget its not just wires but being sent through the air, across sats (many mbps), etc etc. Lots of ISPS abroad have sat links for large chunks of bandwidth. Also the americans have bloody great T1/T2/T3 etc lines which can handle vast amounts of information. Their talking about installing a trunk line (big circle line around the states) using fibre optics which would be the highest bandwidth line in the world.
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Check out Tripwire technology for this.  It has been around for years, and does a great job.  There is a commercial version (www.tripwire.com), and there is probably still a free version of it available, too.\nHope this helps.
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Standards.  Actually, there is a 802 standard (100BaseT4) that uses all eight wires, but it's not commonly found.
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There is no advantage to having more than one network card in a computer unless the computer is being used as a server. Then the server software can create separate subnets to isolate two networks. For example, one side can be a network visible to the Internet while the other side is isolated and (hopefully) safe. The server can act as a gateway.\n\nI'm sure someone will come up with some obscure use for two network cards in one computer, but it's not going to do anything for you like double your speed, or anything like that.
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All devices are connected to one another in the shape of a closed loop, so that each device is connected directly to two other devices, one on either side of it. Ring topologies are relatively expensive and difficult to install, but they offer high bandwidth and can span large distances. \n\nYou have to have two network card per computer not easy to setup eather. Each card has to have it own IP address given to it in Network settings.
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you can only run so many things on soo many frequencies, if everything was wireless we would all have brain cancer from the emi and everything would interfere, just like when your cell phone goes off and it makes your computer screen twitch
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i have no ideal about half the stuff you said there lol?\nbut i networked my xp and my ME using a linkiskys wireless router. it took a total of about 5 minutes to conncet them together so i can share files
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My god, I am trying to think of a way to explain it, there are a million links if you search, but think of a million large spider webs hooked together, you do have one (Company) thats does take care of all the names, somebody has to so there would only be only one of each name, You have millions of web servers, that are computers that can have 1 to 50,000 sites on each one.\nIf you use  your telephone line and modem or high speed connection, the computer connects to the ISP's server. Once there, the ISP acts as a gateway connecting you to any computer hooked to the World Wide Web, using browsers like Internet Explorer or Netscape. \n\nNext, you type in a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) - such as www.yahoo.com. The computer translates this into a number - the IP address - that is unique to every web page and computer, making it possible for machines to recognise each other. The machines then 'talk' to each other using 'languages' called protocols. Specifically, the protocol in question is TCP/IP, which allows computers to describe data to one another over a network. \n\nEvery computer on the WWW understands these two protocols, and can therefore communicate amicably. TCP/IP is actually two different things. TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) takes the information you want to send over the Internet, and breaks it into small chunks of data called 'packets' that can include programming, text, pictures, sound or video in various combinations. IP (Internet Protocol) takes over and routes those packets through computers to get them to their destination. \n\nWhen the packets arrive at the destination computer, TCP reassembles them into what you finally see as a web page on your computer screen. TCP/IP is further broken down into specialised protocols like STMP (which works with email), Ftp (for simple file transfers) and the omnipresent 'http://' (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), which is how Web browsers work. \n\nSounds a bit intimidating? Just remember: you have gone through each of these steps every time you have logged on to the Internet! .
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Ask these guys:\nhttp://www.network54.com/Forum/275684/
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Hi,\n\nI hope they're not just wireless receivers otherwise no transmission can occur ;)\n\nOk seriously, for a small network, all you need is your two Wi-Fi cards. You connect them using Wi-Fi's ad-hoc mode. It's peer-to-peer networking for Wi-Fi.\n\nIf you're building a Wi-Fi network with more than a handful of computers, you'll want to use infrastructure mode, which will require a wireless access point.\n\nIf the guy you're helping out is using WinXP, check out the link below (in sources) for some handy pre-reading info.\n\nHTH
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A network hub with both types of connection will do it. Probably cant get an actual hub, since most such devices are switches these days
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Why not all?\n\nUse a multi client like Trillian or Miranda or Gaim and access all 4 networks. All of the different networks have their own benefits (and users who swear by it)... Why choose?
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What Do You Think Wireless Networks Just Exist Naturally ?..They've Just Been Floating Around Us Since The Begining Of Time ?.. One Computer MUST be Hooked Up Or A Wrieless Network Doesn't Exist ... You Prolly Won't Understand This Answer Asking Such Questions .....
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more details? are we talking layer 3 as in netowrk software??\n\nWe need more information!
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That is a question which requires a hugh amount of time to answer.  You'd do better to just start searching the web for information on networking.  Also, "network" is something of an ambiguous term. Are you referring implementations of OSI?
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If you mean connections to two wireless computers simultaneously, yes. If you mean two completely different networks with different values and protocols (so that you can use a laptop from work and a personal laptop for example), yes, but that's harder (If you want them both connected at the same time I mean. You'll have to designate one machine in your network as a server and use it as the point of connection for the other two. I would use XP pro if I wanted to do that. Gorja tec's answer is correct too. I couldn't tell which question you were asking.
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If you are talking about a home network or lan just buy the wireless equipment. In the longrun it will cost less than a wired network and you wont have all that wire running everywhere.