One of the big appeals of smart home devices is interconnectivity. You tweak some settings on your phone and your devices start working together in a coordinated fashion — the fans and window ...

Your network might be fine, just not properly tuned.

I have a client that has a laptop that they use for travel. When they are in the office they want to be able to access files that are on the network and copy them to the laptop to take with them ...

There are various ways to work together in a network based on Windows 11. The simplest is to set up a shared workgroup, a kind of team of computers with equal rights. The workgroup in Windows 11 ...

As high-speed internet connectivity has become an essential commodity, Wi-Fi routers have become an integral part of our lives. They sit quietly in one corner (or multiple) of our homes, silently ...

Alarming media reports again this week warn that your iPhone’s default settings expose you and your data to hackers. Whether or not this threat affects you, it’s an easy setting to change and you ...

DNS (Domain Name System) settings in Windows help your computer translate website names into IP addresses. However, many of us tend to use a third-party DNS, such as Google Public DNS, as it is often ...

At my last job, I found a great little tool that allowed me to change the DNS, gateway, and IP entries for any NT4 machine on the network (that I had Admin access for, anyway). I can't remember for ...