Benefits Of Networking; Sharing A Single Internet Connection; Sharing Drives - Gateway ProfileTM 5 User Manual

Chapter 11: Networking Your Computer

Benefits of networking

A network lets you:
Share a single Internet connection
Share computer drives
Share peripheral devices
Stream audio and video files
Play multi-player games

Sharing a single Internet connection

Each computer that is connected to the network can share the same broadband
connection or modem and telephone line and access the Internet at the same
time. This saves on the cost of installing another telephone line for your second
computer and paying for a second Internet service provider (ISP) account.
Help and
Support

Sharing drives

With a network, you can copy files from computer to computer by copying
and pasting or dragging and dropping. You will no longer waste your time
transferring files by using diskettes. In addition, you can map a drive on a
networked computer to another computer, and access the files as if they were
located on the hard drive of the computer you are using.
Help and
Support
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For more information about sharing an Internet connection
in Windows XP, click Start, then click Help and Support.
Type the keyword internet sharing in the Search box
, then click the arrow.
For more information about sharing network drives in
Windows XP, click Start, then click Help and Support.
Type the keyword sharing network drives in the Search
box
www.gateway.com
, then click the arrow.