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beast5680:
can i link my laptop to my home pc so it can use the printer easily neither are wireless so it would be a cable link,like a network thing i think
please explain in laymans terms diagrams would be good also :D

waveydavey:
Do you have a home network at all? If not it might be Worth looking at anyway.

beast5680:
no network of any sort :-.

baz2236:
If both PC's have a network card in you can get whats called a cross over cable this will allow the 2 computer to talk to one another and you can set up a network, Once the network is configured you can share your printer across it.

waveydavey:
More or less what I was thinking but if you already have a router for broadband most of them operate as network switches as well.

I guess that the home PC is hardwired tot eh router and the laptop by WiFi?
If so you should be able to set them up as a home network so you can access each others hardware - such as hard drives and Printers.

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