Small business networking – how to setup a network

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Hi !! Today we’ll learn something about the small business networking. Actually if you have a small business and if you need to have to build a small network among the computers, you can do it easily by your own experience. Today in this post we’ll discuss about the system and the process of building a small network. So lets start:

Small business networking – how to setup a network

We’ll use two PC for building this small business computer networking. All these tasks here I’m going to show is done using Cisco Packet Tracer. As you know cisco packet tracer is a powerful network simulator, which can help us to design a network virtually. It is alwaya recommended to use the latest version of cisco packet tracer. If you don’t have the latest version of cisco packet tracer, you can find the latest version of cisco packet tracer in whilenetworking.com . Also if you want to use old version of cisco packet tracer you can also check in whilenetworking.com .We can implement IP address, install networking software and do so many tasks virtually as like real life experiment.

Step a : At first after opening the cisco packet tracer we have selected the two PC (Desktop) and after that drag that two PC to the drawing space, that means to the logical place.

Step b : Now we need to connect the two PC with the cable. We can do this using auto connection. Just select the auto connection cable which stays left bottom side of the packet tracer. After selecting auto connection, click on the PC1 and select the first Ethernet 0, that means Fa0 and at the same way click the second PC, that means PC2 and click the first Ethernet, that means Fa0. So through this step we can now be able to create a cable connection.

Step c : In this step we’ll implement IP address to the PC. We’ll use the networks address as 192.168.1.0/24. And we’ll use the two PC IP address as:

PC Name	IP Address	Subnet Mask
PC1	192.168.1.2	255.255.255.0
PC2	192.168.1.3	255.255.255.0

 

In both PC we’ll use the default gateway as 192.168.1.1

To implement IP just click the PC icon. Then click the desktop Tab. After that click the IP configuration. Here you can get the place to implement IP. Please be careful to select the option “Static” before implementing the IP address.

Check the computer network

Now we’ll check that our network is working well or not. So lets check that. Just look at the right side of the cisco packet tracer. Here is two message icons you can see. One is open envelope and the other is close envelope of message. Just click the close envelope and after that click the PC1. Later click the PC2. Now check the right bottom of the cisco packet tracer. If everything of your networking is OK, you will see a message “successful”.

You can also use ping command to check the connectivity of the two PC. To do that you need to open the command prompt and need to type “ping <IP address>”. If you are in PC1, then in the command prompt you need to type ping 192.168.1.3. That means after writing ping, you need to write the IP address of PC3. If there is a successful connection, you can get the following reply:

 

PC>ping 192.168.1.3

 

Pinging 192.168.1.3 with 32 bytes of data:

 

Reply from 192.168.1.3: bytes=32 time=0ms TTL=128

Reply from 192.168.1.3: bytes=32 time=0ms TTL=128

Reply from 192.168.1.3: bytes=32 time=0ms TTL=128

Reply from 192.168.1.3: bytes=32 time=0ms TTL=128

 

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.3:

Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),

Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:

Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

If there is problem of cable connection or if there is a problem of implementing IP address of PC, you will get a “failed” as notification through that option. In this type of “failed” case we need to analyze the network more and more clearly and need to check the cable connection and also need to check the IP address of the both PC. Hope that you can successfully do that.

Here in this system you can connect the two PC, but if you want to connect three or more PC, then you need a hub. We’ll learn that type of connection from another post.

So lets start, what we’ve learn from that post:

1. We can now be able to identify and implement correct cable for the cable connection.
2. Verify the basic requirement of the network.

So from that post I think that you can now be able to know how to setup a network for your small business networking. This process is very easy. You can do this easily. Just have a try.

If you want to know about Monitor Network, you can check this post.

Monitor Network of a network model using cisco packet tracer

 

You can also get knowledge about network architecture from this post:

Design of a network diagram, to realize the network architecture

 

For your better practice, I’m sharing you the packet tracer file. Here is also instruction included. This packet tracer file is provided by cisco. Hope that this will help you to gain knowledge about how to set up a network.

Download Link of the packet tracer file : Small business networking – how to setup a network

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