What is a Home Network?

The most common use of Home Networking is the linking of two or more computers and their peripherals in your home or office. A network permits you to share a single printer or scanner between PCs, access the same files from different PCs and backup all computers with ease. With networking, all your PCs can share a single High Speed Internet connection. Any number of people in the house can be online with no interference between them. Or multi-player games can be played from different rooms and the players can even speak to each other. Without home networking, each computer must be equipped with its own modem, printer, scanner, internet account, telephone line and so on. Home network offers not only convenience, but saves the cost of hardware and software and reduces the number of costly phone lines and connections to internet providers. The value of these savings alone may cover the network installation costs or even exceed them.

Other home network uses are reaching the market daily. Video and voice transmission over home networks are becoming common. It is now possible to listen to MP3 audio files on a stereo rather than on the PC speakers and to view videos throughout the house, and not only on the TV wired to the DVR. Once you install a home network, you can add new resources as they become available.

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