Everything You Need to Know About Home Networking
Setting up a home network is not as hard as you think it is.
How to Save Wireless Internet Settings to USB
Repetitively setting up Internet connections on multiple devices can be an annoyance. Handily, there's a quick and easy way around it: save your network settings to a USB stick and easily transfer the setup.
Turn Your NAS Or Windows Share Into A Time Machine Backup
Use your NAS, or any network share, for backing up your Mac with Time Machine.
5 Things Users Tell IT Support and What They Really Mean
Sometimes what people tell you they need, isn’t always what they really need. Sometimes, you just have to know better.
Turn Windows Into a Wi-Fi Hotspot and Share Your Internet Connection
You've got an Internet connection via a network cable. Can you wirelessly share that connection with other devices? Can you make your Windows computer run like a WiFi router? In short: Yes!
Monitor Your Network and Watch Your Bandwidth With NetworkMiner
When your Internet connection slows down to slow motion, it's not always the ISP's fault. The culprit could be in your house! Let's see how you can identify it.
Trip Up A Nerd With These WiFi Network & Computer Names
Network and computer names are visible to anyone within the respective environment. Hence they make great subjects for sending messages, confusing other people in the network, or showing off your geekiness. Why use a default SSID or follow a boring name convention, if you could have some fun? Ever since I bought my first laptop in 2003, I named my devices after a life goal or a geographical destination.
Bypass Regional Locks with UnoDNS from UnoTelly [Giveaway]
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!
How To Unbrick Your Trashed WRT54G Linksys Router
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.
How To Write A Windows Script To Change Network Settings On The Fly
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.
Monitor Network Devices And Websites With ICMP Ping Manager
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.
What Is Telnet & What Are Its Uses? [MakeUseOf Explains]
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?
PRTG Monitor - A Free Bandwidth Meter For PCs In Your Home Network
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.
Quickly Set Up Your Own Home Intranet With ocPortal
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.
Someone Stealing Your Wifi? Find Out What They're Looking At With These 3 Apps
If your Wifi is being hijacked by some dirty rotten thieves - I showed you how to check this before - what can you do to get your own back, or find out a little more about who is responsible? Or rather, if a hacker has gained access to your wifi network, what kind of nasty things could they do to you?
Become Really Paranoid By Monitoring Your Network's Comings & Goings With WallWatcher & DD-WRT
If you have access to your router, and it’s able to log activity, it’s relatively easy to watch everything that’s going on to try to find any untoward activity. Today I’d like to show you how to set that up on your DD-WRT router and some Windows-only software called WallWatcher. OSX users can also use it using a Parallels virtual machine.