How to network your home

By Craig Simms | October 12, 2009 | 17

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Craig was sucked into the endless vortex of tech at an early age, only to be spat back out babbling things like "phase-locked-loop crystal oscillators!". Mostly this receives a pat on the head from the listener, followed closely by a question about what laptop they should buy.

This is a Learning Centre article, a multi-part series to be expanded regularly.

There's an area of computing that despite being in the mainstream, is still voodoo for a large number of people — networking. Although it's been with us for decades, networking is still far from the "push one button" simplicity it needs to be and can be quite daunting to the first timer.

In this Learning Centre feature, we'll walk you through understanding and creating your own home network, eventually moving on to more detailed concepts and fun things you can do once all your gadgets are happily talking to one another.

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Burg01 posted a comment 1 year ago
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I am trying to remove two internet networks from an iMac. There is currently three options and only one is required.

Stevo posted a comment 3 years ago

I having trouble getting a full screen on my Sony Bravia TV when I send the Foxtel signal through my Sony DVD recorder/player.
Any Ideas?

Bill posted a comment 3 years ago

Hi there. I have my printer on the mane computer, they connect to the internet via me modem/router. Is there a way i can make the printer to find my other computers?

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Craig Simms posted a comment 4 years ago
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J -- I'd expect there to be some degradation. It's a bit hard to tell exactly how much -- concrete could definitely play havoc, but the configuration of your walls will play as much a part as the materials. As far as I'm aware there's no hard and fast rules, it's pretty much a buy and try situation :\

J posted a comment 4 years ago

Hi. I live in an apartment and we have thick concrete walls. Is a wireless N router powerful enough for me to receive signals from one room to another while maintaining the speed?

slow posted a comment 4 years ago

I have windows vista and I love to watch Live Ice Hockey on my pc. Can someone tell me how do I watch live streaming from my pc to my LED TV in simple plain english Plz. I have spoken with home theatre install people and keep getting different stories so plz help me, someone, anyone

Thanks
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JoshC3 posted a reply 2 years ago
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um use hdmi or vga hdmi does video and sound but vga jst video so u would need to turn volume up on pc or through stereo for sound

no-one Important posted a comment 4 years ago

Hi Kaz, this may sound a little bit foriegn to you as you may not know networking and tcp/ip addresses, but generally speaking to connect to a ftp that a particular person may be running is very simple, it is just your ( or his/her) ip address that connects them to the internet but it just uses a different port number for different functions, like a web page will connect on a persons internet address using port 80 or 8080 and ftp is the same concept but uses if I remember port number 25, but this can be configured to use any port no that you allocate to it

Kaz posted a comment 4 years ago

We are trying to connect our topfield PVR to our wireless router/computer so that we can use Ice Tv guide better and transfer files to our computer etc. We thought we were doing well, but we don't know what FTP software to download and how to find our FTP address. Any advice??
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