Now you need to install your card. Once you have your card in place and driver software installed, simply plug one end of your patch cable into the socket on the back of your ethernet card and the other into the network jack in your room. Your ethernet cable will not plug into your telephone outlet, but your telephone will plug into a network jack. After making this connection and powering on your computer, check to see if there are any small lights on your ethernet card. Now that your hardware is installed, you'll need to get your PC talking to the network.
Network devices communicate with each other using what is known as a protocol .
Either way, we'll discuss getting this protocol active and talking on the network. The step you'll need to take is to open the network properties for your machine. This is ok. This is rather simple. You will probably also want to install Microsoft Networking so that you may share files and printers with other users and Windows servers on campus.