Can you connect more than 5 computers with windows "HOME" version?

Question

The computer genius at my college who has an associate degree in computer networking says that in Win XP Home and Vista Home that you can not connect more than 5 computers together.

I said he was wrong. But then he said he confirmed it at a LAN party. Everyone in class believes him.

Is he full of $hit?

Answer 1

Mixed answer.

You can hook up as many computers as you want to the network, but you cannot connect to all of them. There is a limit as to file sharing connections, and it may affect what machines in the workgroup you get to see and connect to.

So, yes, you are limited from an operational point of view - all those machines cannot interact with each other, However, if each machine was used just to surf the internet, they could all work (10 or 20, whatever...) So, it depends on your definition of "connected together", just by wire to the same switch (unlimited), or logically to each other (limited by Microsoft)

There used to be a MS limit of 10 network connections for workgroups, which included file shares, printer shares, and RPC links. I suspect that limit is still there, in some form....



To get around that, some people set up a Linux file server, and you can then allow "many" PCs to connect to it....

Answer 2

Hello...Btw

You are correct!!! you can connect more than 5 or 10 computers using windows home actually i have a friend using home version have 30 computers connected to LAN.. :)

Answer 3

Home edition only allows 10 concurrent connections at once. SO if you have 1 computer with all your music on it. You can have 10 computers connected to the music at one time. You can have 100 computers at home but they can only allow 10 connections from the other HOME computers

Answer 4

Basically you are connecting your computer to a router in a lan connectivity so everything depends upon the router capability ...device can be on any platform whether windows or Linux and OS is making you connect to router after that router ensures the interconnectivity with other computers..

You are right and he is wrong...

Answer 5

This is nonsense. You can connect up as many machines as you like. Things like ISA may be limited to supporting so many systems but if your are simply networking them together the number of machines is an irrelevance.

Answer 6

would desire to appreciate what "version" of residing house windows your are working ?? be conscious 2007 has those standards - Microsoft residing house windows XP with provider p.c.. (SP) 2, residing house windows Server 2003 with SP1, or later working equipment.( Vista )

Answer 7

xp home version is limited