Networking your Internet
LAN = Local Area Network
- AnalogX
- Cables
- CNET
- COMPUTER NETWORKING BASICS
- Connecting a LAN to the Internet
- Connecting Private LANs to the Internet (2000/06/22)
- Connection Problems
- DIY home networking guides and tutorials - HomeNetHelp.com
- Dummies
- Linksys/Cisco routers
- NComputing - Innovative Multi-User Computing
- Pano Logic | The Leader in Zero Client Computing - (Note that this is not a thin client. No OS. No CPU. No RAM. No drivers. No software. No moving parts.)
- Ports
- port - Webopedia.com
- metadigm - Metadigm's nifty port number utility
- Port Numbers andServicesDatabase
- http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
- Webopedia: Well-Known TCP Port Numbers
- Originally, "port" referred to the connectors on the back of the computer: printer port, serial port, joystick port, and so on. Like a seaport, a computer port is somewhere for a device to "dock" or connect to the computer.
Connections made on a network also happen via ports, although in this case there's no physical connector. Internet ports are virtual connections, but the idea is the same. For example, when you access a website you make a connection to the site's Web server over port 80. There's no physical port 80, it's just a way of separating traffic coming in over the network.
UDP stands for User Datagram Protocol, a protocol used by streaming audio and video.
Agreements within the Internet community determine what port a particular service uses. Ports 0 through 1,024 are reserved by IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. Other applications claim ports from 1,024 to 65,536. For example, iTunes uses port 3,689 for its music sharing.
- PracticallyNetworked.com
- Security (& Virus Info)...
- Sharing Internet access with just one IP address
- SpeedGuide.net - Cable Modems & xDSL Speed Patches and Programs
- TechTV
- Tools - (Networking / DNS / TCP/IP) ...
- Twisted Pair Ethernet (10baseT/UTP) (MSIE only)
- Wi-Fi & Cyber-Cafés
- 10 tips for improving your wireless network
- Wi-FiHotSpotList.com, a directory of public hot spots for finding Wi-Fi wireless Internet access network nodes
- Wi-Fi Hotspot Finder, Product Reviews, and Industry News
- Skype - Free Internet telephony that just works
- The Cybercafe Search Engine
- World66 - Netcafeguide
- Windows XP Security | Windows Wi-Fi Flaw Lets Others See Your Stuff | January 17, 2006
- When Windows powers up but doesn't find a wireless access point, it creates an ad hoc network, complete with the SSID, the Wi-Fi network identifier, like "linkysys" or "actiontec," of the last network connection
- Recommended that users disable wireless when it's not used, or set Windows' wireless to connect only to access points, not individual notebooks - (click on the wireless icon in the System tray, and open the Wireless Network Connection Properties window. Click on the Wireless Network tab, click on the Advanced button, and click on "Access point (infrastructure) networks only.")
- An even easier way to block the "feature" is to use any firewall, even Windows XP's default firewall
- Windows Networking...
- Winproxy - Proxy server andgatewaysoftware with internet connection sharing, firewall, antivirus, NAT,andcontent filtering for your home or business network - download free trial!
- World of WIndows Networking (site: helmig )
- ZDNet
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Windows Networking
- Windows...
- Windows XP
- Networking is built in to Windows 98. Just install the internet connection sharing feature through add/remove software/windows setup. Internet Connection Sharing comes free in Windows 98. You can hookup a hub to a second NIC in your sharing system and plug in as many PC's as you can afford.
- Security:
- Hide shares from browsing by adding $ to the end of the share name.
- Remove the Everyone group from sharing and from NTFS permissions.
- Hide your server in order to prevent users from accessing the server through the browse list.
NET CONFIG SERVER /HIDDEN:YES
UNC path can still access the server.
IP address can still access the server.
- Tips for Networking Windows XP
- A network cable is unplugged (annoying recurring popup message)
or
Local Network Disconnected
- http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php?topic=59472.0
- Trouble-shooting
- router
- IP conflict
- settings (reset to default?)
- recycle both the modem and the router
- Update the firmware on the router
- defective router
- Modem
- Card (NIC)
- Network cable
- Change the port the cable is using on the router
- Win7 > Start > Run > ncpa.cpl > R-click LAN > Properties > Networking (tab) > Configure (button) > Advanced (tab) > Speed and Duplex > 100Mbps/Half Duplex
- ISP
- Windows Indexing Service settings
- Taskbar clock
- remove from taskbar
- ren root%\System32\timedate.cpl somethingelse
Hub = broadcasts packets to all ports
Switch = channels everything just to where it needs to go, which reduces collisions and LAN traffic.