Computer networks have become very popular and many homes and small offices opt to setup computer networks. Once the computers are connected to form a network it is easy to share the resources such as the files, internet etc.
Setting up the computer network in your home or in small office requires a few decisions to be made. Would you like to go in for a wired network or a wireless network? How many printers do you want to share? Will you be connecting a single external hard disk to provide a common backup facility for all the computers or each individual computers will have their own backup hard disk? What sort of security measures do you plan to have? DO you plan to install a hardware firewall or software firewall in order to protect your computers? Its mostly your budget that may ultimately determine the answers to these questions.
Once you have assembled the network components such as the network cards, hard disks , firewalls, hubs etc, your can start assembling your home or office network.
After connection of the routers and the installation of the network cards (wired or wireless) , it is also necessary to setup the network connection in your computer. It is not at all difficult to setup the network connection in your computer as the operating system such as the windows xp or windows 7 will walk through the entire process.
Once your network is setup you can open the network connections wizard from your control panel in order to setup a network connection. The network connection wizard will guide you to setup the network connection in your computer. Every computer connected in your network has to follow the same procedure in order to setup the network connection.