Chapter 16. Putting Your Network Together

IN THIS CHAPTER

This book is about building PCs, as well as maintaining those PCs and repairing them should something go down for the count. In this day and age, however, it’s hard to talk about computers in such splendid isolation because it’s a rare PC that isn’t hooked up to a network for sharing data, peripherals (such as a printer), or an Internet connection.

This assumes, of course, that you have two or more computers to connect. If the PC you built yourself is your home’s second PC, then it’s time you took ...

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