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Small Office Home Office. By: Justin Smith. What is a SOHO?. A SOHO is basically a home network that supports from 1 to 10 users. SOHO’s can used for a home business, or they can be used simply to connect your household.
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Small Office Home Office By: Justin Smith
What is a SOHO? • A SOHO is basically a home network that supports from 1 to 10 users. • SOHO’s can used for a home business, or they can be used simply to connect your household. • Creating a SOHO is often as simple or complex as you want your network to be.
What are the advantages to having a SOHO? • Being able to print from any computer tied to your network. • No computer in the house is inaccessible. • Sharing pictures and file between computer to computer, and between other output devices such as game consoles.
Security risks associated with home networking. • Once a home network is created, it is there until you decide to tear it down. • Never disable port to make you home network communicate, unless you are absolutely sure what you are doing. • NEVER disable the firewall on your network router. • Always make your passwords for your network contain, 2 upper, 2 lower, 2 numbers, and 2 special characters. (*&^% etc.) • Always put login passwords on every computer on your network.
Think of home networking as a hobby. • Networking is only done when you stop it. • Always find ways to make your life easier with your network (like attaching a NAS or all in one printer) • Try to connect more than just computers, try to network EVERYTHING. The possibilities are endless…