Hello all,

I am sorry for late response. But I have been busy.

When networking home PCs you need several things. An switch box to connect
the computer together with cat5e (or cat6) cable. Twisted pair Ethernet
cable is normal for this. Crossover cable is only good if you want to link
together switch boxes (sometimes you need this. But not always) or twisted
pair network cable.

If you want to connect your local network to the internet you need an
gateway. That can be your ADSL router or your cable internet router.

It is also important to use correct IPs when planning home network. The
most common IPs used for home network are 192.168.0.x (x is any number up
to 255) and 192.168.1.x. This are known as local IPs and are not routable
on the internet. If you are using IPv6 this does not matter, as your PoP
is going to assign you the correct IPv6 on your local network.

In all Windows, MacOs, Linux and *BSD systems this is supposed to happen
on automatic basic. You don't really have to do anything if your gateway
supports DHCP server (for IPv4). That should allow you to automatic
configuration of all the computers on that network.

If there any need for port opening. That is done in the gateways firewall.
But configuration method are different between manufactures, so I am not
going to go into details here.

I hope this answers the question that have been asked here.

Regards,
Jón Frímann.

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