March 20, 2013
Technology in the computer age has been plagued with unsecured features, security loopholes, and general oversights in software architecture. Flash drives can carry keyloggers. Browsers might have open backdoors. Windows constantly updates with security fixes. We have to take the good with the bad and there doesn't seem to be an end in sight. Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is one technological advancement that, too, comes with its share of drawbacks.
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February 25, 2013
Network structure and management have their own lingo. Some of the terms thrown around will likely already sound familiar to you. Ethernet and Wi-Fi are largely self-obvious concepts, although it may require a little bit more effort to understand the intricacies of the different Wi-Fi standards. Knowing the meaning of these terms, and grasping the underlying concepts will help you to get a better grip on your own home or office network.
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December 27, 2012
We constantly hear about new security threats and companies that have been breached. As such, it's understandable for some of us to be paranoid about security in order to prevent any possible attacks. If you're not at least a little bit paranoid, you might want to read up on which site was the last one to have passwords stolen from. Even if you have good security measures in place for your computer, you'll also have to place equally heavy emphasis on your home network.
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December 16, 2012
For most people, home networking consists of knowing the wifi password; it's an oft-neglected yet significant topic that has a big impact on performance. If you have more than one computer in your house, home networking knowledge becomes essential. But there are many factors which can slow down a home network, often quite easily fixed.
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November 21, 2012
Do you cry a little inside when someone tells you there’s a port forwarding problem and that’s why your shiny new app won’t work? Your Xbox won’t let you play games, your torrent downloads refuse to start, or your web server can’t be accessed? Well, I’m here to dispel the difficulty and explain just what port forwarding is, and how it can help you.
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July 30, 2012
Wireless networks may not have the reliability of wired networks, but being able to walk around with your laptop, or to connect your mobile devices to the Internet affordably also has its perks. That being said, maintaining uniform network signal strength throughout your house isn’t always easy. Other wireless devices, the position of your wireless [...]
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July 12, 2012
>Are you frustrated by the international blocks that stop you from watching Hulu? Are you a UK Netflix user, annoyed that the American selection of movies and TV shows is orders of magnitude larger than what's available to you? Well, I have the perfect solution for you: a premium DNS service called UnoDNS which bypasses all those regional locks. We've got 25 one-year Gold subscriptions for UnoDNS to give away, worth a total of $1500!
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June 7, 2012
Hachi has just arrived on the personal connections scene with a solution to an everyday problem, solved by using data you've already provided elsewhere. The problem many of us have on occasion is "How do I get to meet this person? Who can introduce me?". Hachi's solution will provide you with the best contact to introduce you.
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June 1, 2012
Here at MUO, we've offered you different ways to hide yourself from other network users. In this article I'm going to show you how to intentionally let people find you and steal your network for the sole purpose of messing with them. Or...you could use these techniques to mess around with friends using your home network.
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May 18, 2012
Have you ever bricked your router? Were you able to fix it, or did you give up and throw your router away? Follow this tutorial that shows you how you can bring back your router from the dead with the help of a few handy third party apps.
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April 27, 2012
In many offices or work environments, you might need to redefine your network settings to connect to different networks. I found myself in this situation often enough, and got so tired of browsing to the network card, opening up the IP settings and making those edits, that I decided it was high time to put together a VB script that would do it all in one or two clicks.
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April 20, 2012
Both at work and at home, I often find that I have a need to check the status of my PCs, printers, servers or other network devices. These days, with so many devices making use of home networks, this is something that more homeowners need to do. you may find it useful to use an application with a nice GUI that will do all of the heavy lifting for you. One such application is Ping Manager.
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December 15, 2011
Telnet is one of those tech terms you may occasionally hear, but not in an ad or a feature laundry list of any product you may buy. That’s because it’s a protocol, or a language used to talk to computers and other machines; not only that, but Telnet is actually ancient in Internet terms, dating back from 1973. So what is Telnet, and what is it good for, anyway?
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November 16, 2011
Have you ever been in a situation where your Internet is just dragging along, while you know that you're the only person on your network, and you're hardly using any bandwidth? There are plenty of tools out there that will help you with analyzing your home network and assist you with increasing your Internet speeds on that network.
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October 6, 2011
Have you ever thought about what it might be like to have a "portal page" for your family, just like many companies offer to employees? Wouldn't it be convenient to have a central web-based repository of important documents, files and schedules for your family? Luckily, there is an open source Portal that you can install on your own home web server.
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