ok here's the thing. From previous posts you will have seen that I've been trying to get the computers in my workgroup to talk to each other, to no avail. Now I have given up and my family are sharing files and folders through the old fashioned system of copying to and from CDs. We can all connect to the internet but that's all we can do.
Here's the question - why do companies like Microsoft and Belkin claim that setting up a home network is 'easy'? You will be networking within minutes etc. etc. Just follow these four or five simple steps etc. etc. You only have to skim these boards to see that easy is the one thing it isn't!

that's it. HAPPY networking to those who can.

Well if your just setting up a basic peer to peer connection it is. Thats the way I have mine. It would be impossible to get internet without me running a CAT 5, which I dont even NEED the internet if I have to get off an move files. Cds ect... What version of windows are you running? I assume it is windows.Well, you do have a home network if you're all getting on the internet. And it probably wasn't too hard to do. Setting up a workgroup and file sharing...not as easy.Thats not todally true, he has to have a workgroup if the other pc's are getting internet. File sharing isnt hard depending on which windows version he is running.I'm not so sure he needs a workgroup (LAN) to get to the Internet.

Setting up the computers in a Local Area Network can be a pain, depending upon the operating systems involved.[GASP] Aegis, THREE weeks old topic!
Tecnofobe has disappeared.Hey, I was just going through pages, and missed the dates...