How Home Networking Works

If you own multiple PCs, you have probably thought about how great it would be if your computers could talk to each other. With your computers connected, you could:
Share a single printer between computers
Share a single Internet connection among all the computers in your home
Access shared files such as photographs, MP3s, spreadsheets and documents on any computer in the house
Play games that allow multiple users at different computers
Send the output of a device like a DVD player or Webcam to your other computer(s)
In this article, we'll look at all of the different methods you can use…