Cisco Certification: Building Your Own Home Lab, Part I by Chris Bryant
CCNAs and CCNA candidates hear it all the time: 'Get some hands-on experience'. From my personal experience climbing the Cisco certification ladder, I can tell you firsthand that there is no learning like hands-on learning. No simulator in the world is going to give you the experience you will... Well, you can use this as your Cable Modem/DSL Modem router. ... You need a physical router as the simulators just don't have the ability to give you the 'hands on' you need to see what happens when you disconnect a cable or put a cable in the wrong location.

Wireless Internet by Dennis Oley
We have all come a long way from connecting to the internet via the old 2400 baud telephone line modem to a slow AOL connection. Now, there are many ways to connect to high-speed internet at various costs and service levels. Today, the Cable TV provided high-speed internet access usually costs... Both DSL or Cable internet access will be delivered through a high-speed DSL or Cable modem. ... I prefer the USB port connected network cards because they are easily portable to any computer (laptop or desktop).

Understanding the Components of a Home Network by Jeff Heaton
Home networks are becoming more common. People want to be able to share a single broadband Internet connection to several computers in the house. There are many different devices that you can use to make up your home network. If you have never heard network terminology device names like router,... Rather than connecting your computer directly into your cable or DSL modem you connect the router to the cable or DSL modem. ... You should connect the WAN port to the Ethernet connection on a broadband source, such as a cable or DSL modem.

Home Networking by Bob Rankin
Setting up Your Home Network As society and technology change, it's becoming common for homes to have more than one computer. When an existing computer is a few years old, parents will often take advantage of today's lower prices, purchase a new computer, and pass the old one down to the kids. ... If not, restart the cable modem, router, and the computers (in that order) and see if that does the trick. ... You'll need to connect each of your computers to the router with a cable, or go wireless.

Basics Of A Router by Robert Thatcher
A router is a computer device that receives or forwards data packets to and from the Internet towards a destination in the process called routing. A router is the essential component of the computer networking that enables any sent data to arrive at the right destination. ... The computer with cable modem has the direct contact with the Internet and the ones connected to it are sharing the connection. ... One more thing: a computer with cable modem could also be considered as a router. ... Why would anyone need a router?

How To Set Up a Wireless Network in your Home for Beginners: Comcast High Speed Internet by Carlos Cabezas
Let’s just skip the intro and get straight to it. This tutorial is for the Windows XP Operating System. If you don’t have it I recommend you upgrade to it. This portion of the tutorial will apply to people with Comcast High Speed Internet. For other Internet Providers I will include another... If there is an Ethernet cable going from the Comcast Cable Modem to your desktop computer, disconnect this from both the computer and the modem. ... If it is a USB cable disconnect it from the computer and the modem.

Some Notes About Notebook Computers by Martin Coleman
Are you interested in laptops? Perhaps you are interested in buying one, or you already have one and just like to read more about them. Either way, I have some good information for you regarding laptops and their use. I really like laptops. I think besides executives, gamers, multimedia guys and... What this means is, all the components and peripherals you might buy for a standard PC such as the monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, microphone, camera, network card, modem, wireless adapter, etc are all built into the laptop case.

Port Forwarding: A Guide by Ajay Divakaran
So first, here are a couple of things that you can do after you finish this section. - You can configure BitTorrent to give you excellent speeds - You can configure your computer to play multiplayer games over the internet - You can setup your computer as a terminal server (for remote desktop... However, you can connect only one computer to the cable modem at any given time. ... If you directly connect your computer to the cable/dsl modem, you are using this IP address to communicate with other computers on the internet.

Building Computers: A Short History Lesson by Michael Quarles
In only a few years, the task of building your own computer has gone through remarkable changes, almost entirely for the good. It’s less complicated, and far less prone to the devilish sort of problems presented by certain steps in the process. One of the most notable improvements has to do with... You had to have a sound card, modem, network card, capture card, in short, a card for about everything you wanted to do. ... This was a multi-step task. ... The toughest problem was loading the operating system.

Good Reasons To Have A Wireless Network by Kenneth Snodin
Having a wireless network opens up many possibilities. Wireless networks provide an inexpensive and easy way to share a single Internet connection among several computers. This means you only need one modem, and you can add additional computers to the network just by plugging in a wireless card... It is much easier to experience online play through an Xbox or PlayStation 2 that is connected to a wireless network than have to use a modem! ... This means you can connect to the Internet whenever you want without waiting for your modem to dial in.