Here is a practical way of protection your LAN from various flaws and issues. I had created some basic ready to uset tips which can help you to fix various lan issues. There are number of problems that comes in between when your working on your home or office network. Lan is the most best way to share files, to share printers, share internet, etc. There are other more purposes which makes LAN an need for all system. My tips on based on TCP/IP protocol which is widely used on Windows and other platform.
They are easy to configure and manage. You does not need to have a very advance knowledge about the same. Troubleshooting simply means finding out what is the issue in your network and then fixing the same out with some basic help. If you have basic knowledge on LAN, network setting, router settings, etc then that is more than enough to get help from this article.
There is always sometime a issue on LAN and many of us do not really know what to do on that. Some of use dedicated network professional which keeps monitoring the service and troubleshoot th problem. But remember that Windows LAN setup is extremely easy. There is no issue if you have a server also on your LAN. There are certain tools which are very much functional and providing better information on the current situation of your network. A LAN can be prone to various issues like, virus attack, sniffing, malware, etc. To avoid that we use an Firewall or an Antivirus program to on the network to get rid of the same. The first basic thing you must know that you must always use an LAN Monitoring tool which analyzes your network packets. There are ample of LAN analyzer tool that can help you to understand what is going on your network.
This are called as Protocol Analyzer. They provide ample of LAN Troubleshooting help. But those are basically recommended to work over TCP/IP networks. Sometime this can be tricky a bit because there can be some issue which is hard to understand by a common user. The entire scenario here is set around the IP addresses of network computers. You might aware how a LAN network looks like. First you have router, then you have a network switch and then you have number of pc. The router connects to the switch. The computers are connected to the Switch and all are online on a single user. A Network switch lets you to configure more systems at one time and provide a common platform for all. Now when you set your TCP/IP settings on Automatic then the router and your operating system decides some default set of IP Addresses to all the system.
An IP Address is an different address of each system. The router then balances the Internet bandwidth via switch and diverts the same to all. But if you are putting an IP address manually and if you duplicate the same then you can see a error popping up saying that there can be an IP Conflict. Better set the same to automatic.To understand on what does the network errors are dependent have a look below.
Common Network Problems :
- Misconfigured IP
- Misconfigured Network
- Wrong Domain Setup
- Wrong Workgroup Setup
- Non-Optimized Network Devices
- Network Cable Problem
- Bad LAN Card / LAN Card Drive issue
- Virus Attack
- Firewall Issue
- DNS/DHCP Errors
- Proxy Issue
- Slow Network Server and many more.
This are just the basic things which I am talking about. You can divide the same to hardware and software and get a bigger list. Now the question here is why does the Network or LAN error arises. First you must be aware about your LAN entirely. You must know the design and the systems of how your Network works. You must also know about the User Access Rights and any other major configuration that is needed on the Network. This will make your job a much more easier one. I always keep a document of my LAN, a hard copy plus the design which lets me to reach directly the problematic system. Now as you go below you will get common issues of LAN and some troubleshooting tips. Read them and carry of copy with you. You can use these to diagnose a number of problems one by one.
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