Thursday, July 21, 2011

Create A Personal Multi-Player Game Environment

One of the most popular computer solutions that computer repair people get is how to create a personal multi-player environment.

To achieve this, you can connect all of the computer users and computers to one another. By doing this you can allow the sharing of hardware as server or wireless.
This type of setup can also allow the sharing of software and other data as well in a safe, private environment. All this is a great way to create a personal multi-player environment using your internet and what is called a LAN connection.

When setting up your private multi-player environment you should keep in mind that by updating all of the computers to see if they are compatible to each other will make the connections a lot easier because each computer will have access to the shared equipment. This connection will allow each computer to interact with the shared equipment as if it is directly connected.

The actual process of connecting computers together is with a wireless connection, cable or an Ethernet cable. Using an Ethernet is by far probably the cheapest connection that can be used because it involves using what you already have such as a router, cable for each computer and a network card. The network card is usually already installed in most stock (or ready built) computers.

A network card is a lot like the old modem cards that were installed in the past as the only way to connect to the internet. In a personal multi-player game environment,the network card is what is used to communicate with all of the computers that are connected together.

The last part of the hardware setup involves checking that all of the computers that are going to be connected have a network card, have a cable that allows the computer to "talk" to the server through the router and modem of the main computer.

Now that the hardware information is out of the way, it is a good time to mention that you want to keep all of your computer equipment organized. A great way to do that is to make sure you either purchase a cabinet or purchase shelves for a rack server. A rack server gives your computers,and router a place to "breathe" by allowing them to have space above and below and stacked as to keep them out of the way.

For the correct way to configure a personal multi-player environment you can look at the instruction books for each set of equipment. Then you need to go into your Windows and setup the network on each computer, using the LAN setting instead of the regular internet connection.

Windows has a simple wizard (or a follow through setup) that makes the network setup easy to follow.

One precaution needs to be mentioned here: once the computers are connected, all files, can be shared and accessible through any of the computers.The files also include access to the internet as well. If you have documents that you feel are sensitive do remember to put them in a folder that restricts permissions , and remember to install a firewall program to prevent possible malware,spyware, viruses from the internet from infecting your personal multi-player environment and from accessing your information on all of the computers.

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