# Setting up my own home office 'corporate' computing environment **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 25, 2020, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/setting-up-my-own-home-office-corporate-computing-environment/918972 "2020-08-25T12:14:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/setting-up-my-own-home-office-corporate-computing-environment/918972/22 "2020-08-29T11:44:21Z")
@Reply and @DPRK and “at” everyone else, thank you! This all makes complete sense, and helps clear up my 90s-based confusion. With damn near _every_ computer nowadays having WiFi capability (which wasn’t the case back when I was in college), it sounds like **TripCoReamsAndBeets** just needs a good local WiFi router with an attached storage drive to accomplish the basic needs. Most of my ignorance comes from working experience, again, back in college (~20 yrs ago) where we had to connect individual workstations in the Computer Lab to a LAN to enable them to have connectivity to the server for internet service. Don’t need to do that anymore. For the Farm, I can work around some of the obstacles and LIMFACs of dial-up, and filesharing. The key, though, sounds like getting a decent WiFi router (or two). I seem to recall setting up our two computers here currently at the house recently, that there was a “Network Discovery” option. . . what is that/does that do? Tripler Not currently employed by **TripCoReamsAndBeets** A future, small, humble company. . . ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/setting-up-my-own-home-office-corporate-computing-environment/918972/23 "2020-08-29T12:23:10Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > I seem to recall setting up our two computers here currently at the house recently, that there was a “Network Discovery” option. . . what is that/does that do? One your network is set up (and firewalled…), turning Windows Network Discovery on scans the network to look for things like routers, printers, and other computers that have services accessible over the network. You might need to use this if you are setting up a Windows workgroup, for example. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/setting-up-my-own-home-office-corporate-computing-environment/918972/24 "2020-08-29T20:07:14Z")
Thanks guys! I’m saving this thread, so that in _another_ twenty years, when I retire to beet farmin’ and paper sales, I’ll have a head start. Tripler “Learning has been achieved.” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/setting-up-my-own-home-office-corporate-computing-environment/918972/25 "2020-08-29T20:16:28Z")
I expect in twenty years high-speed internet will be available at TripCo (better known as Schrute Farms), so that you’re not forced to host your own file and mail servers. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/setting-up-my-own-home-office-corporate-computing-environment/918972/26 "2020-08-30T15:09:19Z")
In 20 years the beets will probably be farming _us_ ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/setting-up-my-own-home-office-corporate-computing-environment/918972/27 "2020-08-30T15:41:26Z")
. . . and will probably have better Internet too. Tripler I’ll retire and start a new ISP: **Beet.net** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/setting-up-my-own-home-office-corporate-computing-environment/918972.md?page=1)