Networking

The Peer-to-Peer Networking with Windows XP solution provides guidance on how to connect and configure computers and networks in a small office or a home office with up to 10 users. This solution helps you through the common tasks, answers questions you may have, and helps you avoid or troubleshoot problems that you may encounter. The solution is targeted at business users who use and install their own computer systems.

This article will cover the TCP/IP Protocol within Windows XP Professional by Jason Zandri.

The Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) feature of Microsoft® Windows® XP allows you to share a single Internet connection with multiple computers connected to a small office/home office (SOHO) network. This article describes the components of ICS and how to enable it, common problems with ICS configurations, and the set of tools and common tasks used to troubleshoot ICS issues.

Because small office/home office (SOHO) wireless networks do not have servers to perform automated configuration and verify authentication credentials, in many cases the configuration of wireless networks is done manually, which can introduce errors relating to mismatched authentication and encryption settings. Other issues such as signal interference and signal attenuation can also cause a lack of connectivity or intermittent connectivity problems. This article describes how to troubleshoot the most common issues with Microsoft® Windows® XP-based wireless connections on a SOHO network.

This article will cover the TCP/IP Protocol within Windows XP Professional, specifically, troubleshooting of the network protocol.

In this article we will cover the fundamental uses of Netsh, a Windows based command line tool that if you master, can be very helpful in quickly getting your network setting changed from the command line without having to navigate the GUI for all your setting changes. The Netsh tool once mastered can make life much easier for you and your administration of systems on your network or at home. In this article we will also look at how to create files to simplify changes further.

This article examines how to configure and troubleshoot Windows Firewall using the Netsh command-line utility. The procedures covered apply to both the Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 operating system platforms.

Explains how to Configure a Windows XP Client to Use DNS with screenshots.

I decided to make this page to help everyone find articles relevant to the problems they are having, from simple home networking problems, the differences in networking in XP and other verions of windows, setting up internet connection sharing, troubleshooting ICS, setting up your personal firewall and any number of other problems.

In this article we will learn how to configure a connection to a virtual private network (VPN) using Windows XP. This article will show you how to create a new VPN connection using Microsoft Windows XP. By creating an encryption tunnel through the Internet, data can be passed safely.