differences between a home network and a small business network?
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The biggest differences are going to be the size of you database and your security.  Businesses are going to need dedicated storage area and firewalls and/or proxy servers.  Home networks can do most of this through software instead of hardware.
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Yes I have 2 workgroups here on my network - Home and Workgroup, however if you mix versions of Windows, you often have to do a 'Search' in XP before a Win 95/98 PC will see the rest of the network
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A local area network (LAN) is a computer network covering a small local area, like a home, office, or small group of buildings such as a college. Current LANs are most likely to be based on switched Ethernet or Wi-Fi technology running at from 10 to 10000 Mbps. The defining characteristics of LANs in contrast to WANs are: a) much higher data rates, b) smaller geographic range and c) they do not involve leased telecommunication lines.\n\nMetropolitan Area Networks or MANs are relatively large computer networks usually spanning a campus or a city. They typically use wireless infrastructure or optical fiber connections to link their sites.\n\nA wide area network or WAN is a computer network covering a wide geographical area, involving a vast array of computers. WANs are used to connect local area networks (LANs) together, so that users and computers in one location can communicate with users and computers in other locations.
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Dell PowerEdge is a good choice for small business. You can click on the following link and it will guide you to the right model.\nOther brands, HP ProLiant, gateway.. those are worldwide support\n\nd10v01b
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The easiest way is to buy a router or wireless router. You can set them up to access the internet or not. Once they both can get onto the internet you can go to My Network Places and set up either A "wireless home or small business network" or "Set up a Home or small business network". Y ou may need to run this on both computers so when it ask for a NETWORK name put in something other than MSHOME which it sets up as a default. \n\nNext go to your Folders or Hard drives that you want to share and set them to sharing mode.To do this RIGHT CLICK on your (for example)MY MUSIC folder, Then scrool down to SHARING AND SECURITY, LEFT CLICK. It will ask you if you are sure, Hit YES and it will set permissions. Do this on both computers Hard drive or folders that you want to share.\n\nThen reboot both computers. Next when your computer turns back on go to START, MY NETWORK PLACES and left click on your network. then you can click on it and see the files or folders you selected to share.
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What is a Network?\n\nA network is simply a group of two or more Personal Computers linked together.\n\nWhat Types of Networks Exist?\n\nMany types of networks exist, but the most common types of networks are Local-Area Networks (LANs), and Wide-Area Networks (WANs). In a LAN, computers are connected together within a "local" area (for example, an office or home). In a WAN, computers are farther apart and are connected via telephone/communication lines, radio waves, or other means of connection.\n\nProtocols \nAn agreed-upon format for transmitting data between two devices. The protocol determines the following: \nthe type of error checking to be used \ndata compression method, if any how the sending device will indicate that it has finished sending a message how the receiving device will indicate that it has received a message. There are a variety of standard protocols from which programmers can choose. Each has particular advantages and disadvantages; for example, some are simpler than others, some are more reliable, and some are faster. \n\nFrom a user's point of view, the only interesting aspect about protocols is that your computer or device must support the right ones if you want to communicate with other computers. The protocol can be implemented either in hardware or in software.\n\nHardware\n\nThe physical components of a computer system. Reference is often made to "hardware" and "software"; in that context, "hardware" consists of the computer, input and output devices and other peripheral equipment.\n\nComputer Hardware devices capable of accepting and storing computer data, executing a systematic sequence of operations on computer data, or producing control outputs. Such devices can perform substantial interpretation, computation, communication, control, or other logical functions\n\nThere are literally hundreds of manufacturers for computers, monitors, printers, and other components. My advice to a first time buyer is to stick with a brand name. Getting that first computer can be very exciting, but the excitement can quickly dwindle to sheer terror and frustration if there are compatibility problems between the components and the software.
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A local area network (LAN) is a computer network covering a small local area, like a home, office, or small group of buildings such as a college. Current LANs are most likely to be based on switched Ethernet or Wi-Fi technology running at from 10 to 1000Mb/s (megabits per second). The defining characteristics of LANs in contrast to WANs are: (a) much higher data rates, (b) smaller geographic range and (c) they do not involve leased telecommunication lines.\n\nTechnical aspects\nAlthough switched Ethernet is now most common at the physical layer, and TCP/IP as a protocol, historically many different options have been used (see below) and some continue to be popular in niche areas. Larger LANs will have redundant links, and routers or switches capable of using spanning tree protocol and similar techniques to recover from failed links.LANs will have connections to other LANs via routers and leased lines to create a WAN. Most will also have connections to the large public network known as the Internet, and links to other LANs can be 'tunnelled' across this using VPN technologies.
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There are many ways that networking can be helpful in office buildings or at home.\n1) Sharing resources, such as storage, backup, printer or scanner.\n2) Sharing data between users. Share documents, databases etc.\n3) Same user accessing data from different locations, using a roaming profile. A user can log in to different computers and use them as though they were one and the same.\n4) A wireless network just extends the network from nodes at specific points to nodes anywhere.\n5) Transfering video data from surveillance cameras. Using a network saves having separate (expensive) wiring dedicated to the video cameras.
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LAN = Local Area Network - Usually used in a single office\nWAN = Wide Area Netowrk - Multiple locations share the same netork with the use of T1's hubs and routers.\n\nThey are pretty much the same.
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For residential customers, upstream speeds have traditionally been quite a bit lower than downstream, since most people are typically downloading instead of uploading.\n\nBusiness customers usually get higher upstream speeds--at a much greater cost.
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I have a 5 computer network at home. 1 computer is wireless. I use a Dlink DI-524 wireless router. It has 4 wired ports on the back and wireless capability. It has a built in firewall and it seems to be plenty fast. It cost me $50 with a $25 mail in rebate(so actual cost was $25) at Office Max about 4 months ago.\nIf you need more wired ports use a switch. They run about $20 to $30 and they are truly plug and play.\n\nAs for the wireless setup...\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/athome/moredone/wirelesssetup.mspx#step3\n"D"
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What kind of network are u using?
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1) Cost of installing wired connections is much more than that of wireless\n\n2) Greater access to the intranet/internet.
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It sounds like you want to invest in wireless technology in your home.  Wireless will give you the ability to have up to 4 desktop computers and many wireless devices (laptops, PDAs, etc...).\n\nVisit Linksys at http://www.linksys.com for more information on wireless technology, or just go to Best Buy or Circuit City and talk to someone.  It will probably cost you around $100 bucks to get up and running.\n\nGood luck!
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Setting up a home network??\nYou are rather vague perhaps a little more info might get you what you need.\n=)
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The home hub comes with one lead for an ethernet connection and one USB lead. You can also connect wirelessly, if you have a wireless adapter for your PC.\n\nThe setup software is fine as long as you only want a simple setup.  My PCs connected (one ethernet and one wireless) to the internet without a problem, but I cannot get my file sharing working - although it was working fine with my voyager 2500V.\n\nThere are some things that are naff - it installs its own web-browser and tries to change your default home page.  Also, I had trouble downloading the norton security software (though it is fine now, after goodness knows how many re-starts of my computer).  The other thing is that it installs other cr*p like softphone and communicator and various help files, which I eventually uninstalled because my computer was taking far too long to start.  Before you can download the Norton Security suite, you will have to uninstall any Norton Security ithat you already have (which mean that your PC is unprotected during the download) and I also uninstalled my voyager software, though this isn't essential (as long as you like drinking coffee!)
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LAN = local area network \n\nMAN = metropolitan area network \n\nLAN works in a building (office) whereas the MAN works in a large geographical area..Canada are in the process of building a MAN so an entire town can catch wireless internet off-charge!