The advantage of networking technology helps to share computer, printer and people under a small office environment. The linking between the computers saves time and money. You can reduce the costing of expensive hardware using the sharing process. From a single internet connection all computers available under one network can accesses different hardware like printer, scanner and web cam. The Internet connection sharing feature of windows operating system helps to connect different computer under a workgroup. Single internet connection is shared by all PCs available in a small office. The network security is most vital is all type of networking and we’ll discus about that later and that is most important for personal computing.

Hardware required for Networking

The hardware required for Networking are Networking adopter cards and LAN card. You have to configure you computer to add is to an existing network. You have to connect the computers physically for that. Using Network Bridge you can a lot of adopter to expand the size of the Network. The Local area network is perfect example of Network Bridge. The cable connection between the computers and use of Ethernet adopter make it simple. The use of IP address is traditional in local area networking. The Router is an essential hardware for set up of an IP routing. You can also set up a subnet for a group of IP address. The media that use in transferring the data form one computer to other is packet and packet switching is powerful technology in networking to break the data in to packets.

Networking provides connection with people through computer. You can explore the world very fast without worrying about difficulties of high expanses.

To connect your computer to the Internet first of all you need a Modem. This special device converts the telephone’s analog signal into digital signal. The installation process of this device is very easy and the plug and play method helps the computer to detect this device automatically according the manufacture’s specification. These facilities were not available in the earlier version of Microsoft main operating system- windows 98 or windows 2000. You have to connect the modem in to an empty slot of the computer Motherboard. An external modem can be connected using the USB port. Form the control panel you have to select the Phone and Modem option to configure you modem.