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If you have more than one computer at home, you are probably better off connecting them or networking them together to use the same resources and receive the same internet connection.  A home network is very easy to build.  Here are some tips for the nOObs.

There are two main types of home networks, wired and wireless.  While wired home networks are popular, but they require you to run wires from one computer to another.  You might have to drill holes in a wall or run wire under the carpet.

If you don’t want cords running all over the place, you can easily get rid of them with a wireless home network.  Wireless home networks are extremely simple to set up.  You only need a wireless router and a wireless networking card for each additional computer you would like to hook up.  Most wireless networks can send and receive data lightning fast at megabytes per second.

Wireless networks are extremely inexpensive, you can hook up a few computers for less than $200.  The great part of wireless networks is that all computers on the wireless network can use the same internet or other resources such as a scanning machine and printer.  So if you are looking for a great way to share data and resources among your home computer, choose to build a home network.

One day I’ll get around to posting how i setup my network here at home behind a sun server and having 7 gateways too it. Seems overkill but I love it and the piece of mind it puts me in.

Doing what I do on a daily basis, and having so many freaking issues between network shares, well I had this issue today with my Maxtor telling me, “Warning: Error creating share!”, well that’s a first! Out of 3.5 years non-stop these (7 Maxtors) things have been online and never been down, as the fact they are backed up with a nice UPS to keep them alive…

well you know scouring around, ssh to the damn thing, and figuring out what to do, I seen the problem under the logs on it, and bam, time to refresh the .bin file (Which is the shareware crap) Long story short, just update your firmware no matter if you have a current version or not, it’ll fix this issue, seems out of 3.5 years of hard work, they do give out at some point. =)