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"Sandgroper" <steveray@KNICKERSiinet.net.au> wrote in message 
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> "nbs" <nbs@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> star network topology you say. and the other choices would be...?
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> Maybe you are showing your ignorance a bit .
> There are a few choices of a network , depending on the size of the set-up
> involved and I was merely telling the OP the exact type of network to use
> since he has no experience with computers or computer networks.
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> The other networks that can be used are
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> Ring
> Bus
> Tree
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> And you also have within each group different types of networks.
> Read up on them , you might learn something.

My apologies, it was a rhetorical question. The OP is a self-confessed "not 
far advanced from computer illiterate" so any discussion of network 
topologies is hardly relevent. You don't have any practical choices when 
connecting such a small number of PCs because there is no point - there 
would be no performance gains to be had by implementing a certain topology.

If a customer asked me to implement any particular network topology I'd 
immediately know they have no clue, unless it was for a reasonably large 
network and/or they had particularly high throughput requirements, AND they 
had some credible reason for requesting it. Where specialist networking is 
required you need to get professional advice. I would argue that even for a 
small business you should get professional advice because unlike your home 
internet-sharing setup, businesses need to maximise functionality and 
reliability.