I understand that it is a means of connecting ip hosts, on DIFFERENT
segments, that are on the SAME subnet.
A router, conversely, connects DISSIMILAR subnets, as defined by subnet
masking.

Hello everyone...
I've got a rather troublesome problem.  I have all three computers in
my house networked through a D-Link DIR-625 wireless router.  One is
hardwired to the router itself and presents no problems for me.  The

I have almost successfully set up my home network.  I have a desktop running
XP Home and a laptop running Vista Home Premium.  I have a printer connected
to the desktop that I would like to wirelessly access from the laptop.  The
computers are both in the same work group, both ...

Need help with my wired/wireless network to allow me to share files between
my desktop PC and my wife's MAC laptop.
We are running a wired LAN as follows:
- wired from wall cable connection to cable modem

I'm trying to share a couple of folders from one computer to another on a
home network. Currently, the two computers and connected to a router which
connects to the internet.
My question is, when i enabled the folders to be shared, why do those

I'm sorry for posting here, but there is no Vista newsgroup...
I'm trying to connect a Windows Vista Ultimate laptop to our network, but am
having problems...
The network has DHCP so I know all the IP/gateway/DNS/etc addresses are ok.

I have a small network at home... machines are in same workgroups.
I can get the internet..but when I run IPconfig /all  I get
An internal error occurred: A device attached to the syustem is not
functioning.  

I've seen many posts about this problem, but none of the solutions seem to
fit my particular case.  I hope someone can help...
I'm trying to build my first home network using a Dell desktop and Dell
laptop, both running XP Home SP2.  My modem-router is a Belkin ADSL2+ Modem

I have my main ics running xp home bought girls two older machines but
running xp pro. A lot of details ask to right click on my network properties
but on my main ics it keeps on freezing and will not work, need to use task
manager to shut program down any ideas or hints first ...

scenario.
I have 2 laptops running XP Pro sp2...both are wirelesss.
I just got a IBM Lenovo Tower unit running XP Pro sp2, connected via
ethernet card.

Your computer was not able to renew its address from the network (from the
DHCP Server) for the Network Card with network address <MAC address>. Event
Id 1003
This happens only on the first boot with several desktops with windows xp

Since a few weeks I have the more and more annoying behavior here, that
starting IE7 from within another program (i.e. by clicking onto a link,
e.g. in an email or in a PDF or a word file) takes "forever".
Initially this opened IE7 almost instantaneous, then - a few weeks ago -

Hi all. I am currently staying in a hotel with my colleague and our room has
only 1 lan connection. I connected my notebook to the lan connection. My
notebook is also connected to my colleague's notebook using adhoc wireless.
Initially i set my notebook wireless network with an ...

I just had a gigabit network switch die, and I've been researching the
inexpensive units meant for unmanaged home LANs.  It turns out that some
of the brand-name units like Netgear models do NOT provide gigabit
networking in a mixed environment  -- i.e., if just one device ...

I note that there is an option in their properties to show an icon in the
notification area...  but where can I find a setting to stop the
'connected/connecting' 'disconnected' etc pop ups from constantly stealing
focus just to make me shut them again?  Grrr...