July 2005
Beginner
268 pages
7h 41m
English
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Home Networking Software
Good news: the software that lets your computers hop onto a network is already part of your operating system! You don't need any other complicated software, just maybe a little program called a driver, which is a piece of code that comes with your networking hardware and lets it talk to your computer's operating system.