Consider the cost of everyone having an individual modem, telephone line and separate ISP's.

The Peer to Peer Home network is the inexpensive solution when everyone wants to surf the net at the same time with a minimal budget. I built mine for under $100. When I decided to set up a peer to peer home network, I soon realised that the Internet didn't have much to offer in the way of simple help. Either the information that was supplied required a doctorate in Computing Studies or some Software Company trying to ram their product down your throat.After much fiddling about I managed to get things up and running by myself.

My peer to peer home network consists of five PC's linked together, all with internet access using the one modem. The purpose of this page is to enable you to get a home network up and running with minimal problems. I hope you find it useful. When you build a home LAN, you can put that old PC back to work, printing letters on a printer attached to another PC; you can get twice the use out of that 8X CD-ROM by hooking up the kids' PC in their room and let's not forget how much fun you can have blasting a family member into oblivion in a multiplayer game of Duke Nukem 3D. But don't expect fantasic internet speed if everyone wants to download big programs off the Net at the same time unless you have a cable connection.