home network

I have a home network with the following devices : WIN 10 PC WIN 11 PC NAS I see only 1 or 2 of the devices at any time and on an intermittent basis. For example the WIN 11 PC sees only the WIN 10 PC. The WIN 10 PC today sees all devices including itself although yesterday it only saw itself...

I received today the Zalman ZM-WE450 WIFI enclosure and planning to buy 4TB HDD for it. It works pretty well but since it is old it is limited to the speed of the WIFI 2.4GHz. I am trying to find a way to limit who can access it on the network. It is currently connected to the WIFI rounder and...

I'm working on networking our home. WAN to Cable Modem to Router to Unmanaged Switch in the Utility room (roughly the center of an ell-shape) (and WIFI APs on the west end and north end) to wired drops in selected rooms. So now I see mention of a local "Cloud" storage for a home. Say what? I've...

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I am using Windows and Linux systems. I have a printer with wifi that I can share easily to a Linux system since the printer directly supports IPP. However, I have another printer with no Wifi that is connected to a Windows 10 system. I would like to share that printer as well to Linux via...

Hi. My Nvidia shield pro is wired to my router and also my router has a HDD attached to it, like a NAS. I can access the contents of the USB drive on my Nvidia Shield pro and can access the NAS using my Android phone via FX explorer app. However, using my laptop which is on WiFi and on the...

My son has a Win10 gaming desktop computer and I run Linux Mint 19.3 on my own desktop. Both are on the same home WIFI network. My ISP furnishes a nominal 40Mbps down cable internet service. When Ookla speed test is run on the Win10 (Chrome) the result is 3-4Mbps down. Same test on my...

Hi, I follow this tutorial How To Allow Remote Desktop connections from outside your home or office network to allow my machine accessed by other. It really works when if the computer that access it is in the same network as mine, And doesn't work when we use another network. I use can you see...

How do you find open ports in your home network because im trying to make sure my network is more secure and that if something happens im alerted or the problem is taken care of automatically?

I have a home network with three computers. They are all running Win 10 Home. I have "shared drives" with "Everyone" on each computer. When I am on my laptop (WiFi connected to the network) I can see Desktop#1 computer, but it asks for credentials (I do not know what user name/password it is...

As this image shows, my Linksys router has created an extra "computer" on my network that carries my network's name. Ideally, the list should only show the three computers I have on the network. I know the extra computer is my router, but it serves no purpose being there. Does anyone know how to...

When my Toshiba laptop wakes from sleep it does reconnect to my home WiFi network, but it assigns to it the generic name 'network', which is not my real network name. It also creates a new network profile key in the Registry with the name 'Network', and creates an unmanaged signature key in the...

Hello folks, The machine in question - a Windows 10 Home PC desktop, (Version 20H2 (OS Build 19042.870)), virus scanned running on a Core i7 8086K with 32GB RAM and a GTX 1080ti - cannot seem to get remotely close to the download speeds of any of the others PC and devices on my home WiFi...

Although due to some properties use this program, I want to ask tips on how fully replace it. Total Commander file manager is OK, but for example, working with the home network is is unsatisfactory and complex. Needs a plugin for this(?). Or at least I can't operate me. Does anyone know...

10 Pro identifies the network ID as Business regardless of being set (repeatedly) as a "home" computer. The result is a morass of network connections and passwords that work then fail and change in inexplicable ways with every reboot. I have edited the registry, group policy, adapter...

Hi, The weirdest thing I have seen...... I have several win 10 machines on a home network. No domain, but same workgroup name. All can access each other with credentials, however Machine A is hit or miss with connecting to Machine B (Machine B can always connect to A without issue). In the...

When i used to loose internet connection , now it takes 10 mins or more to print an A4 photo . Do you think this is because i need a new Wi-Fi Adapter , it's been there about 4 years now . I don't know what make it is i bought it in Asda about 4 years ago . Even when i try the Wi-Fi Adapter in...

Hello, Need help. Windows 10 v2004 on two machines 'A' and 'B'. on ethernet-connected home network. Following Wednesday's updates to A that machine no longer appears on my local network. B can see itself in File Explorer and in my 2-pane file manager but cannot see A. A...

Yuck! While I'm waiting to get the house network drops installed I turned on wireless. OH MY GAWD. I think a slug is slowe6 buy I'm not sure. Can someone point me to tweaking the wireless settings so's I can at least get at least a reasonable wireless speed. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

We are moving accross town, a few miles west. This gives me an opportunity to replace the home router. House is one story, block construction, 2500 SQ ft. Currently I have a LinkSys router with 4 drops and use wireless for wifie's Mac stuff and my Android. But ... what's getting my goat is the...