Special Edition Using Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional, Third Edition

Chapter 19. Connecting Your LAN to the Internet

In this chapter

• It's a Great Time to Connect Your LAN to the Internet

• The Nuts and Bolts of the Connection

• Configuring Your LAN

• Making Services Available

• Troubleshooting

• Tips from the Windows Pros: Squeezing Top Speed from Your High-Speed Connection

It's a Great Time to Connect Your LAN to the Internet

In the 1980s, only big corporations and universities had Internet connections, and then, a single 64Kbps connection was probably shared by hundreds of users. Now, accessing the Internet is as much a daily requirement as the morning paper. We expect to have instant access from any keyboard we can get our fingers on, and personally, I get grumpy using anything less than a 400Kbps connection. That's progress, ...