Category: #Networks

As with any other piece of technology, Apple’s smart speakers may encounter glitches from time to time. Your HomePod or HomePod Mini can stop working…

Did you get a shiny new Wi-Fi router to help with all your stay-at-home internet activities? You’re likely not alone, thanks to the rise in…

Port scanners are tools that help users identify open ports on a computer network. Admins can use them for reviewing security policies and monitoring network…

Do you have a Mac and a Windows PC on the same network? Perhaps you’re currently working from home and want an easy way to transfer…

Is your Wi-Fi connection too slow? Are you having constant network problems while surfing the ‘Net? Chances are your wireless network is handling more traffic…

There are tons of applications that promise you higher network functionality and extreme Internet speeds. Usually, these applications present nothing but a gimmicky interface while…

Faraday cages for Wi-Fi routers are the latest 5G conspiracy grift, writes Matthew Gault at Vice. The metal cages “block up to 95% EMF RF…

Wi-Fi 6 has accelerated its creep into mainstream wireless networking, urged along by the similarly accelerating spread of gigabit internet. Until the last few months…

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Comcast’s 1.2TB monthly data cap is coming to 12 more states and the District of Columbia starting January…

We get it. Picking a router is hard! Do you even need a gaming router? Won’t your ISP-supplied, non-branded modem/router combo obelisk suffice? Probably not!…

As more adults transition to working from home and kids transition to at-home learning, it is more important than ever to have a fast Wi-Fi…

When working with MSSQL databases, you may find that you need to export databases over a network share directly from the SQL Server Management Studio…

Hosting your own VPN server can secure your network by allowing you to set rigourous firewalls in place (to block important services like SSH), while…

The PlayStation 5 will support WiFi 6 upon its release this November, but it won’t mean much if gamers don’t have a router that also…

When reading about cyber-security, you’ll probably see talk about “air-gapped” computer systems. It’s a technical name for a simple concept: A computer system that’s physically…

It isn’t CSI magic—it’s easy to get location info from an IP address. The internet is split up into chunks, called subnets, which are spread…

Run Snort on Linux and protect your network with real-time traffic analysis and threat detection. Security is everything, and Snort is world-class. This pig might…

By default, many routers have Wi-Fi protected setup (WPS) which can let you connect to your router without needing its SSID and password. However, WPS…

When connecting to a database, you must take extra precautions if it’s not running locally. Any connections made over a network should be secure, and…

DNS records are used to translate addresses humans can understand (like google.com) into IP addresses computers can understand (like 64.233.191.255). In order for your site…

Fraunhofer, the German company that helped develop the H.264, H.265 and MP3 encoding formats, has unveiled a new video encoding standard that could severely reduce…