You will often find 15 or more.
Wireless technology can help cut down the tangle.
And prices, once sky-high, are becoming more affordable. A traditional, wired local area network, or LAN, uses cables to link computers together inside a room or building. You can then transfer files quickly from one computer to the other, and share printers, scanners and other peripherals. Wireless networking does all this, but without the wires. We tried out several wireless products from Compaq, including the WL100 PC card for notebooks and the WL200 PCI card for desktops.