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Understanding The Home Network
XP home networks are becoming more common. People want to be able to share a single broadband Internet connection to several computers in the house, as well as having access to one printer. There is a simple, yet powerful piece of equipment that does all of that for you. It is known as a home network router
The purpose of this device is to control how the network passes around information. This information is sent in the form of "packets". It simply means the data that the network is transporting. One of the most common searches on the Internet is setting up home network. It's quite simple and I'll explain it to you.
The Home Network Router
A home network router is a device that has several Ethernet ports on the back of the device. One of these ports might be labeled "Uplink". This port allows you to connect multiple home network routers together, if you run out of ports on your home network router. If you do not have an uplink port on your home network router, the router cannot be easily extended if you run out of ports. Unless you have a LOT of computers in your house, this is nothing to be concerned about.
If you DO have a lot of computers in your house, and they are not always accessing the Internet at the same time, one wireless home network router is a better choice than having two routers. Setting up home wireless networks is simpler and faster than setting up a wired home network router
A router is a device that attaches multiple computers on an Ethernet network. If you have a number of computers that you want to connect together, you could connect each to the home network router, either with cables or wirelessly. Any packet that is sent out by any computer on the network will immediately be transmitted to the Internet.
You COULD use your home network like a small business network, where information on other computers on the network is shared, but most people use the router to allow multiple home computers to use a single Internet connection.
There is most likely a port on the router labeled "Internet". You run a cable from that port to your Internet connection, such as a cable modem, to provide Internet service to all the computers on your xp home network.
Some routers come with additional features installed. Most routers also include a firewall. Firewalls are discussed in the next section.
What is a Firewall?
A firewall controls traffic flow between your home network and the Internet. A firewall can be either hardware or software. Windows XP SP2 or higher includes a software firewall. A hardware firewall is included with most routers.
A firewall is a very good idea. It can protect you from inbound virus attempts. By inbound virus attempt I mean other computers that will connect to your computer and attempt to infect your computer. You do not want to run a computer directly connected to the Internet, without a firewall. There are just too many other computers out there that can connect and infect you without you even noticing, until disaster strikes.
The way the firewall protects you is really very straightforward. The only direct connection to the Internet is your home network router and it's firewall. It's not a computer, so it can't be infected with a virus.
WARNING!!!! NEVER rely on the router's firewall to provide 100% protection against computer viruses. ALWAYS have an anti-virus program installed on your computer. An excellent, and no cost anti-virus program can be downloaded at http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html
Conclusions
As you see, the process is very simple. You purchase a home network router, either wired or wireless, connect up your computers and printers using the router's easy and simple setup program, and plug the router into your Internet connection. For ease of setup and convenience, I suggest that you consider home wireless networks as the better choice.
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is there possible to create VoIP server in home?
is there possible to create VoIP server in home? if can how to setup it plz help me.....
Yes. I good platform is asterisk (Note the spelling when searching) it is a SIP based platform. It runs on a really low spec machine, is linux, and even comes with a nice pre built installation called AsteriskNOW. (It is GUI managed as well)
There are many free softbased SIP clients that are easy to use I use X-lite but there are others.
You do not need to punch any holes in your firewall to get it to work (inband and outbound calls) and can support a large number of phones (depends on platform of course).
You need to have a little knowledge of SIP and alot of Internet VoIP providers support connectivity and will even supply the configuration for you to connect.
For the real hardcore asterisk users you can purchase a FXS/FXO PCI card to allow you to connect Fax lines (FXS) and terminate on a PSTN analogue line (FXO)
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