home network

Out little home network has been the victim of relentless hacking for over 2 years. Something that may be significant is that when the hackers control our computers remotely, they are able to initiate a power-down on the computers. What I mean by that is that Windows 10 does not go through the...

I am on W10 and all my home computers are in a home network (cabled). after each w10 update my shared drives/ folders disappear from" Network" . If I enable protocol SMB1/ my folders/ network reappear and stay even if I disable protocol SMB1. Can anyone enlighten me?

If I'm logged into Windows 8.1 as username/password, and I try to access files on another computer on my network (in this case my NAS, which I think is running Linux), what username and password does it try to connect to the NAS with? If it gives me a "You need permission to perform this action"...

Hi, My wife purchased a recon PC with Windows 10 installed, it networked with my windows 7 PC okay. I've finaly gotten round to upgrading my PC to windows 10 and I cannot see her PC. How do I go about getting the two PCs to be on the network? thanks, Gerald

I don't find anything on this and i'm trying to configure my home linux mini server to be able to make some lan webpages discoverable by windows as a "network infrastructure device" or other devices/media devices in the network explorer. I know it is possible as my router has the administration...

We have been using a VPN for quite some time. Unfortunately, it reduces our speed to far below streaming service requirements. We periodically see offers on Indiegogo for devices that supposedly provide security in themselves. The attached screenshot shows two examples. Is this type of thing a...

Ok, after 6 months of no internet, we finally got internet at our apt complex. Its not the best, but hey, better than no internet haha. We got CenturyLink Ok, i know port forwarding works because i have a rule setup for tcp on 25565, allowing my friends public ip into my game server. It works...

I have a lenovo AIO 730S-24IKB computer running Windows 10 Pro and my wife has an Acer Aspire A515-52 running Windows 10 Home. Both Windows OS are up to date. Control Panel/System shows that both computers are on the WorkGroup called Workgroup When I click on Network in my Lenovo computer I...

I have been using WSE 2016 for a few years now to manage a simple home network of 4 windows 4 PC's with one WSE 2016 server. It worked fine over the past few years. I mainly use it for movie file storage and client backups. Recently some of the overnight backups stopped. No matter what I did the...

From what I gather, it's not just me. Other devices in my house will stay connection. My Samsung Tab Pro stays online, my Kindle Keyboard stays online. My Moto Z Play will play non-stop music and stream video all day long. My recently updated 2 year old Windows 10 laptop won't. This just started...

A power surge knocked out our ASUS router so I replaced it with a LinkSys. It's been working fine, no complaints, except that my Win 10 desktop still displays the network connection (wired) with the ASUS router name. I would like to change it to remind me that it's a new router. Firstly, should...

Hi, I have a Lenovo ideapad 510 laptop running windows 10 64 bit which is fully up to date, my wifi adapter is an Intel dual band wireless ac 3165. For a few months now my laptop will not auto connect the wifi when i reboot, it always used to though, I’m not sure if its a windows issue or a...

I reset my internet because it was too slow and after I did that my phone and PC didn’t have connection. The wifi showed up, but there was the yellow exclamation mark and it said “no internet secured.” I tried properties and restarting my devices and the internet but nothing worked. Please help...

So I have 2 connections, Home 5 and a wifi extender in my office. The computer is not wifi and dosent hook up to the wifi extender box. It's still coming up as wifi extender on my ethernet not wifi. I would like it to be home 5 on the ethernet.

I'm using windows server 2012 on a supermicro motherboard. I set my ip address as my home ip address same as my router and when I type in the IP address I get a supermicro login page. I use to be able to get into the router through the IP address. Should I change the ip address to something else...

My ISP is set up so that I can sign in with a username and password as in most sites. However, if I click on settings, I can see the secure network within my house and by clicking on [hide/see] I can see the same key that is in the gateways router which I can access by typing 10.0.0.1 in the...

Several Windows 10 machines in my home network communicating without problem. Some month ago I added a Windows 7 machine, which was accessible for a while, thereafter it was only found but no files accessible any more. Now another newly installed Windows 7 machine shows the same problem. I have...

I need help with slow booting of win10.. 1.my pc1 is connected via network cable to my router 2. my second pc2C is minix neo win10 media device, connected to same router 3. on that PC2 neo win10 media device i have usb disk1 which has shared movies and series folder 3.i have usb disk2 shared via...

Hi I need to assign an ip address automatically in wifi network of my windows pc to connect different wireless . but my PC is assigning constant default gateway even a change my network setting to DHCP. it make me to delete the default gateway manually each and every time when i need to...

Hi guys I have a Server running winSrv 2012 R2 and have being upgrading my little knowledge from version 03 days. Thus has been reading about the threshold to switch from workgroup to domain, etc, etc. I notice that my Server did not use a Work Group or a Domain to link up the many PCs in the...