Chapter 4. Putting Your Network Together
In This Chapter
- Inserting an Internal NIC
- Connecting the Broadband Modem
- Connecting the Router
- Connecting the Switch
- Laying the Network Cable
- Changing the Computer and Workgroup Name
- Making Wireless Network Connections
- From Here
By now, you’ve assembled your ethernet devices (see Chapter 1, “Understanding Ethernet Networking”) and your wireless networking devices (see Chapter 2, “Understanding Wireless Networking”), and you’ve set up your router for networking and Internet access (see Chapter 3, “Configuring Your Router”). All that’s left now is to put everything together to create your network, and that’s the subject of this chapter. Here I take you step by step through the entire process of taking ...
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