Sharing Your Broadband Connection
There are two ways of
sharing broadband Internet access: ISP's line sharing option and connection through
Local Area
Network or LAN.
With
more and more people having access to broadband Internet, it is
now very usual for offices, businesses and even ordinary
households to have a two or more computers. This is primarily
due to the necessity of computers and internet connection to our
daily life, activities and work. Several households have two or
more computers used by parents and the kids. It will be too
expensive to subscribe to several broadband connections and so
there is a need to connect these computers to share one
broadband Internet subscription.
There are
two major categories in sharing broadband Internet
access for different computers in one building. The first one is
through Internet Service Provider or ISP's line sharing
option. Normally, they give this to business
establishments that have multiple computers and now it is available
for many residential Internet subscribers.
The second category is
connection through Local Area
Network or LAN by using routers. Routers may come
wired or wireless. What a router does is to feed from the Internet connection of
one computer and share it to the other computers. It is just
like connecting an extension wire or cord to the electric
socket; there is only one source but it is used by several
appliances. Same principle applies for routers.
Although routers may come wired or wireless, the general advice is to use wireless routers especially if
the computers are located on different floors. Wireless routers
may be extra costly but it saves time and reduces the
hassles experienced with lots if wires lying around. There are
various brands of wireless routers available in the market, such
as Linksys,
D-Link, TP Link, etc.
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