The line between your home computer network and your home entertainment system is blurring. Here we look at a number of different ways that you can share files between the two. Networking Entertainment Systems

Answering a question about how to control what information on your computer is accessible from other computers on your network. More on Sharing

When you can’t connect to another computer on your local network or the internet then there are a number of possible causes. The first step is to work out where the problem is and to do that we need to use commands that will test the network connection and tell us a bit more about [...]

When you network computers together you will not be able to gain all the benefits of doing so unless you provide some access to each computer’s hard drive from the other computers. Windows XP provides a Shared Documents folder which provides this access to some extent. In this article we look at how you can [...]

When you set up any server software to run on your network then you may need to reconsider how your network is configured. Router settings may need to be updated to open the ports that the software uses in order for it to be accessible to other computers. Networks and Software

When setting up a network you will find lots of items on sale that look similar but have different names. By knowing what those names mean you can buy the right components for your network. Network Terminology

This O’Reilly book produced in conjunction with Microsoft provides you with step by step instructions on how to set up a home network which includes Windows 7 computers (along with possibly Vista, Windows XP, Mac, and Ubuntu Linux based computers as well). Read more about what I think of the book “Step By Step Network [...]

When you network two computers and the network works for access one way but not the other then you can eliminate a lot of the possibilities as to what has gone wrong. Only Working One Way

The Western Digital MyBook World Network Accessible Storage device makes several promises on the box as to what it can do. It can act as a media server for an Xbox or similar to be able to play back movies onto a TV, it can download files from the internet for you at a scheduled [...]

Some web sites provide easy to follow instructions on how to do things. Other sites such as the Xbox Live site make things as confusing as possible so that you will do all the wrong things and then have to harrass their support staff for a way around the mess. Here’s what to do to [...]

If you are using Internet Connection Sharing to share an internet connection on one computer with other computers on a local network then you not only need to have ICS installed on the computer doing the sharing, you also need to configure the other computers so that they know where to find the internet. ICS [...]

Do you still use dial up internet? Do you have a network of two or more computers sharing that dial-up connection via Internet Connection Sharing? In this article we look at how you can control when your network will dial your ISP to establish an internet connection and how to stop it from dialing automatically [...]