What are the devices I need to constitute a Local Area Network?
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Cheapest: Buy a crossover cable and plug it into both PC's.\n\nBest: Buy a switch and two Cat5 cables. Connect each PC to the switch.
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First, get a real computer.......lol\nSecond, I would get the linksys NSLU2.\nThen add a couple of USB2.0 hard-drives and you're good to go.
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Configure your network device to acquire IP address from DHCP server. Thats all your done. Plug your modem to the PC and enjoy the Internet
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You can use RealVNC. This program will allow you complete desktop control of any PC on your shop lan. No adware either! I use it to watch my home lan and control my PC cams.
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You need to purchase a Netgear FA120 USB Adapter, or a FA511 PC Card(108MBPS). Also WG511T fOR 108MBPS.
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A local area network (LAN) is a computer network covering a local area, like a home, office, or group of buildings. Current LANs are most likely to be based on switched IEEE 802.3 Ethernet running at 10, 100 or 1,000 Mbit/s or on Wi-Fi technology .\n\nThe defining characteristics of LANs in contrast to WANs (wide area networks) are: their much higher data rates; smaller geographic range; and that they do not require leased telecommunication lines.\n\nTechnical aspects\nAlthough switched Ethernet is now most common at the physical and data link layers, and TCP/IP as a protocol, historically many different options have been used (see below), and some continue to be popular in niche areas. Larger LANs may have redundant links, and routers or switches capable of using spanning tree protocol and similar techniques to recover from failed links. LANs may have connections to other LANs via routers and leased lines to create a WAN (Wide Area Network). Most will also have connections to the large public network known as the Internet, and links to other LANs can be 'tunnelled' across this using VPN technologies.
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Make sure your computers have network cards. You can directly plug them together with an ethernet cable. Use Windows networking features from there.\n\nDo some google searching if you get stuck.\n\nThere are more elaborate ways of networking computers too.
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As i said in your other post, you'll need a router (wireless or wired), a switch and network cables.  Do you live in the Maryland area?
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LAN cable connected to a router (Buy the router) or buy a network card and connect it to your laptop--unless you have it built in--and buy a router.
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get two comps , plug em together , hey presto you have a LAN
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if you've already got the wireless network set up, I believe Network Magic, which is a program made for this you can link everything together, and monitor the network. Or you can get a wireless printer adapter.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "portable router". All routers are portable - the computer they are hooked to makes no difference to them.\n\nIf you mean "portable networking device" like a USB wireless device, then you'll have to have the correct driver on the other computer for it to use it.
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A network hub with both types of connection will do it. Probably cant get an actual hub, since most such devices are switches these days
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You would need to hook up a router. If the computers are next to each other a hard wire router would work. If they are in different parts of the house, you would need a wireless set up. If wireless is needed, I would look into a good firewall too (which you should do anyways! :))\n\nYou would need this set up even if you had cable internet.
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use a switch or hub , and connect all of them  whit your computer , and configure your adsl conection in wndows to allow he other conection use that .
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I could answer this in several ways, based on your level of technical expertise.\n\nSimply put, you need a wireless router or access point.  This will provide the "link" between your network and any wireless cards that are in your PCs.  The PCs to be attached to the network are called clients.\n\nYou can have either a Wireless B, Wireless G, or Wireless A network.  G is backward compatible with B (meaning you can, if the router is set to "mixed mode") run a Wireless B laptop in a Wireless G network ... it will just run slower.\n\nThere is also MIMO or 802.11n wireless, but this standard has NOT been ratified yet.  You can run 802.11b or g clients with it as well MIMO clients.\n\nAdditionally, it's 100% necessary to use some sort of encryption in your network.  Otherwise people will be able to monitor your network traffic and pick up passwords, account numbers, etc.  Obviously this is not likely to happen, but you can use either WEP or WPA and it's fairly painless.  Note the word fairly.\n\nI'm going to give you a bunch of links in the Sources section that will help you in more detail.