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Networking 101

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What is networking?

Why network?

What is a network?

Wired or wireless or both?

What does a network look like?

What are the components of a network?

What about wireless accessories?

Why network with Motorola?

What does a network look like?

Once you've chosen your type of network, you can add more computers and peripherals, such as printers, scanners, game consoles or anything else that people can share on a network.

Let's take the previous example — two computers, one desktop and one laptop — and build on it a little. We'll add another desktop, a printer and, of course, a broadband modem so all the computers can share a broadband Internet connection.

If this is a wireless network, it looks like this:

Diagram of a wireless network

If it's wired, it looks like this:

Diagram of a wired network

And the combination wireless/wired network would look like this:

Diagram of a combined wired/wireless network

Got it? Don't worry, the next page explains the components of a network. Click here.