Windows XP ships with a built-in support for wireless local area networks (WLANs), which is compatible with the 802.11b standard. Simply insert a WLAN PC card in your laptop or desktop computer and the OS automatically installs the required software and runs the services....
Windows XP supports many different network technologies, including Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)....
Many users are disappointed that Microsoft discontinued support for NetBEUI, as a number of networks still use this protocol....
Like Windows 2000, by default, Windows XP uses TCP/IP, which has become a standard network protocol. With Windows XP, Microsoft decided to discontinue support of the NetBEUI (NetBIOS Extended User Interface) network protocol....
Internet Connection Sharing (ICS), which is built into Windows XP, allows you to easily share one connection to the Internet with other computers. Strictly speaking, ICS is not new; it was included in previous versions of Windows (Windows 98/Me and Windows 2000), but Windows XP's version includes some new features....
Microsoft included this special wizard to help you configure your home network. With this wizard, you don't have to manually configure any of your home computers. All you have to do is run the wizard on all of them....
Like previous versions of Windows, Windows XP ships with the Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) feature, which allows you to use one Internet connection for several computers. For example, if you have three networked computers and one has an Internet connection, you can use ICS to share the single connection....
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