how to have computer networking..?

Ron Keliipio: For home networking I would recommend a wireless router to support your laptop. I'll say buy a wireless router(belkin or Dlink). From your broadband modem to your router, then use your wired connections to your computers and just configure your laptop to pick up your wireless router signal. Done

Dexter Gold: You don't need a "server" to connect the systems to. In client/server networking, all server indicates is what computer you are establishing the communications with or what's "serving" out the application. Although for corporations, this is normally a rather powerful computer, it's mostly powerful to support lots of connections to it, not because it has to be.I'd recommend purchasing a Wireless router to connect the ISP connection to. You'd connect to the wireless router with the laptop or whatever wireless systems you have. It'd handle things like firewalling, serving out the IP addresses, resolving domain names (human readable names to machin! e addresses), and allowing clients to connect to each other using the built in switch ports and wireless LAN. You can connect via either a wireless card or physical cable connection to it using an Ethernet (network) cable. All that's really left to do is configure your systems to allow them to talk to each other. Make sure all of the computers are in the same workgroup if they're Windows and either permit file and print sharing on the firewall or turn it off. You could choose to make it easier to connect to each other by putting in IP Addresses to the other systems in the hosts file (C:windowssystem32driversetchosts) or use NetBIOS names or IP Addresses to connect to each other. NetBIOS names can be found by typing "hostname" at the command prompt. All of them need to be different from each other. It's also best to synchronize passwords between systems to make it easier to connect from one to another. This is all done manually.Enjoy,WG...Show more