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Is there a difference between a work network and a home network?

Answered Is there a difference between a work network and a home network?

  • Friday, April 09, 2010 10:42 PM
     
     
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    Is there any difference between a home and work network? Or are they the same settings and just there for our own classification purposes?
     

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  • Friday, April 09, 2010 11:43 PM
     
     
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    On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 22:42:45 +0000, Ian_L wrote:

    > Is there any difference between a home and work network? Or are they the same settings and just there for our own classification purposes?



    A homegroup and a workgroup?

    Very little difference, if any. But a homegroup will only work with
    Windows 7 computers, while a workgroup will work with almost any.

    I recommend the workgroup, since it's more versatile.

    Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
    Ken Blake
     
  • Saturday, April 10, 2010 4:47 AM
     
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    Yes, there is a difference between home and work network. Please see this website.

    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Choosing-a-network-location

    Eric
     
  • Sunday, April 11, 2010 8:02 PM
     
     
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    thanks. So looks like the only difference between a home network and a work network is just being able to use a homegroup.

     

     
  • Friday, April 23, 2010 11:51 AM
     
     
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    Well so in Windows Vista there is absolutely NO Difference ?
     
  • Friday, August 26, 2011 6:53 AM
     
     
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    Thanks i was confused lost of thanks