Diamond HomeFree Diamond HomeFree Networking has some obvious advantages. Sharing files, Internet access, and peripherals such as printers across multiple machines makes computing life easier. Even gamers can have some fun playing a Quake deathmatch across a network. Diamond Multimedia's new HomeFree WirelessNetwork kit offers true wireless connectivity between PCs. While you'll still have to open up each system to install a card, we found that the bundled installation software made connecting PCs easier than ever before.
Wireless systems designed for corporations tend to cost nearly ten times that much.
The shipping version will inlcude an ISA card and a PCI card. Once the card is installed, the installation software automatically detects any other cards in the area and configures a network. If you're starting from a clean system, you can have the network up and running in minutes. The installation software shouldn't have any trouble sharing Internet access across multiple machines in your home. We had no trouble printing across the network once we installed the printer drivers, through Windows 98's Printer folder, on the remote machine.