If your company network is having problems and you need to troubleshoot it, you also need to know some basic information about the computers on the network. Internet Protocol is the underlying ...

Before connecting a printer to a local area network, to prevent problems from occurring down the line, businesses should make sure that their networking, hardware and software setups will allow the ...

Many a time IT admin needs to set up multiple IP addresses to the same network adapter. Situations such as hosting multiple SSL sites can speed up traffic exchanges, which can bypass the gateway in ...

Your computer's IP address, the string of numbers used to identify your computer online, can be found in Windows easily. You usually don't need to know your IP address, and it's usually assigned ...

In an upcoming blog I expect to write about configuring a home router, which requires logging on to it. This, in turn, requires knowing the IP address of the router. Non-techies typically don’t know ...

Turn off your router. Unplug the power adapter from the wall socket. Wait for a few minutes. Plug the power adapter from the wall socket and turn on your router. Now ...

I have a user who's machine is not pingable on our network, using computer hostname or associated IP. However, in troubleshooting this, I see that the IP the machine actually has does not resolve to ...

The nomenclature of the web is vast. But even though words become commonplace, people often don't know what they really mean. But they should. An IP address, for instance, is a ubiquitous part of the ...