In this article on dial up internet connections we look at how we can use internet connection sharing to provide access to the internet from multiple computers on a network while only requiring one of them to have a modem attached.
For those people still using a dial up internet connection, the amount of time that you can actually spend connected to the internet will be somewhat more limited than you would get with a broadband connection. By planning out what you are going to do in advance you can arrange things so as to make the best use of the time that you spend online by leaving many of the tasks that can be done without requiring the internet to be connected right this minute to those times when you are able to work on your computer and are not connected to the internet. This is useful for example if you have two separate times each day when you can use the computer but want to avoid having to connect to the internet on both occasions.
When you need to find out anything about how your networking is configured and you are using a Linux operating system then the ifconfig command is the place to start. In this article we look at what typing this command in by itself might produce and what all of the cryptic entries in that output actually mean.
Not just Windows NT but also the more recent versions of the operating system (2000, XP, 2003 and Vista) are also covered by this article. If you have windows already installed on your computer then the chances are that you will have networking already installed but if you need to do a reinstall of your operating system for any reason then you may find it easier to do a basic install without any networking first in order to get things up and running quicker with fewer things to go wrong all at once. Once you have that done then this article will be what you need in order to go back and install the networking that you omitted from the earlier install.
If you have two or more computers in your house then networking them together will make using them much easier than if each is completely independent. Here we look at the basics of what you need to do in order to get your computers talking to one another.
Internet Protocol uses what are called “port” numbers to identify different types of communications on the web. Programs ‘listen’ on particular ports to identify the traffic that is intended for them. This article provides a brief introduction to what port numbers are all about and identifies the ports used by some of the most commonly used server programs on the internet.
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