The kids are all growing up and the fighting over who's turn it is on the computer is driving you crazy.

This is not an uncommon occurrence, many families are now having 2 or more PCs in the house.

The hard wired network is very popular as is the wireless solution allowing portability with the notebook.

With a basic network up to 4 PCs can be linked and share an ADSL Broadband Internet connection at the same time.

The Advantages of Networking at Home

Internet Access Sharing:

Small computer networks allow multiple users to share a single Internet connection. Special hardware devices allow the bandwidth of the connection to be easily allocated to various individuals as they need it, and permit an organization to purchase one high-speed connection instead of many slower ones.

Entertainment:

Networks facilitate many types of games and entertainment. The Internet itself offers many sources of entertainment, of course. In addition, many multi-player games exist that operate over a local area network. Many home networks are set up for this reason, and gaming across wide area networks (including the Internet) has also become quite popular. Of course, if you are running a business and have easily-amused employees, you might insist that this is really a disadvantage of networking and not an advantage!

Share a single or multiple printers

Networking your computers will let you print to any printer in the house where it is connected to a computer.