A carefully designed home office network can provide a secure connection to a common private network and the Internet. ... (Coyle, p. 42) Internet/E-mail- Connecting a home network to the Internet enables more than one individual to use a computer at home. ... The central location should be near a cable connection; this is because the network will connect to the Internet using a cable modem. ... A punch down tool is used to attach the wires on to each connection. ... Start by connecting each computer network card to the wall connection. ...

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In 1997 Microsoft paid $425 million to acquire Web TV Networks, a manufacturer of low cost devices to connect the televisions to the Internet. That same year Microsoft invested $1 billion in Comcast Corporation, a United States cable-television operator, as a part of an effort to expand the availability of high speed connections to the Internet. In late 1997 the Justice Department accused Microsoft of violating it's 1994 agreement by requiring computer manufactures that installed Windows 95 to also include Internet Explorer, Microsoft's Software for brows...

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They exchange and broadcast their modified code through the Internet. ... Users can simply download it from the Internet. ... Some additional software can be downloaded from the Internet too (http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml). ... Users can download Window Manager freely from the Internet as well. ... The user of Linux machine can have his machine running and somebody else logging in into his machine through Ethernet connection or modem connection. ...

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The web server is very handy if you do web development: even Professional includes IIS 5.0 (with some limitations: only one website, limited to 10 concurrent connections). ... Windows 2000 is not for the avid gamer but more so for internet gooroos. ...

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Modems permit us to connect to the Internet, which is a global communication network. ... Some are 14.4k, 56k these uses a phone line, cable modem (in only large cities, an internet setup that uses a cable line) and many more. ... For Example: connection to the CPU to the hard disk. ...

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A Firewall is a program, which stops other connections from different servers to the firewall server. ... However, this is a very good way of protecting your system on the Internet. ... We use the Internet extensively. ...

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