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"Networking Genuis/Pro/Knowledable person needed! Please help!"

I am thinking about adding a network into my dads office, and i also need to persuade him to do it.
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There will be 10 PCs, and they all need to be networked together, with a fileserverd, a printer server and an internet server (1 of the 10 PCs could do all three couldnt it?)..

Could someone answer these questions for me?


1) The advantages and disadvantages of introducing a network
2) A technical description of how the network will "hopefully" work.
3) Wireless and Wired options
4) Costings of the networking parts + links to places to buy them on a budget of £1000 (Just for networking parts and installation). All 10 PCs are home build AMD Athlon 2600XP's on an ASUSTeK 87VX-X (someit like that mobo), with 512mb of Crucial pc2700 RAM. One PC will have 4x 250gig HDD should one PC be able to be used to be the central server.
5) Any other relevant info.



Thanks for your Help


Andy, on Daniel Done's account.



PS. If you cant write all of the info I need here, please send an email to [email protected].

up yours knob cheese, go f**k ur mom u c*nt!

No.

What you're asking is effectively "please tell me everything I might ever need to know about networking, as I can't be harrised to get off my sorry backside and find out for myself". The infinitely broad scope of your question belies the fact that you haven't the first clue about your subject matter (certainly not enough to actually ask specific questions about it), and makes the question itself unanswerable.

If I came on here and said "HAY GUYS WOT DO I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT WINDOWS?????" it would be very much the same thing. Find out more about networking, and if you have any specific queries, feel free to come back. But don't expect us to do your homework for you, we're busy people.

Just answer the question ;). This is sposed to be a nice community of people who HELP, not CRITICISE.

If you don't know enough about networking to be able to answer your own questions then you are not going to be able to install a network into a work environment, just as I'm not qualified to do brain surgery on your budgie. If you're getting someone else in to do the job for you, then they should know how and be able to advise your Dad. I am curious as to why you are thinking about installing a network when you don't know how they work or even why you might need one - surely if you want or need a network, you would KNOW what advantages it might bring. Or are you only interested in getting a network so you can play LAN games with all your buddies?

I am thinking about adding a network into my dads office, and i also need to persuade him to do it.
,
There will be 10 PCs, and they all need to be networked together, with a fileserverd, a printer server and an internet server (1 of the 10 PCs could do all three couldnt it?)..

Could someone answer these questions for me?


1) The advantages and disadvantages of introducing a network
2) A technical description of how the network will "hopefully" work.
3) Wireless and Wired options
4) Costings of the networking parts + links to places to buy them on a budget of £1000 (Just for networking parts and installation). All 10 PCs are home build AMD Athlon 2600XP's on an ASUSTeK 87VX-X (someit like that mobo), with 512mb of Crucial pc2700 RAM. One PC will have 4x 250gig HDD should one PC be able to be used to be the central server.
5) Any other relevant info.



Thanks for your Help


Andy, on Daniel Done's account.



PS. If you cant write all of the info I need here, please send an email to [email protected].