home network

Yesterday I came back to my PC and tapped the keyboard to wake my machine up from hibernation. Went online to do some web surfing and got that "No connection" screen that you get when something is wrong. My first instinct was the reboot the router. Which i did, to no avail. Looking down I...

I have a small home network of 2 XPs and some linux PCs. One of the XP PCs ( XP1, say ) has a printer. This printer is shared on the network and works OK. I've recently added a Windows 7 PC and made it use the same Workgroup as the others for networking purposes. All the Windows PCs can ping...

Hello I have two win8 computers and one ubuntu on a small lan. If i try to filebrowse from ubuntu to a shared drawer in any of my win8computers a login is required and i have no idea what username and pw i should use... I have tried my hotmail account and all other i could think of but i just...

mac, win 10 pc and win 7 pc are networked (home network - WORKGROUP). whenever i try to access the win 7 files from win 10, it ask for a network credentials pw. the mac, win 10, and win 7 computers all have the same login pw. other than that i have never assigned any other pw to either of...

My Windows Vista won't go online unless it is connected to the router now like it used to, and I have no idea why, it didn't used to be like this, I don't remember when it started doing this but it was when I still lived with my parents, and the last time that I had to move both of my computers...

I have a computer that used to be a pc in our den that I recently made my main media storage in basement, on that computer i changed the name to BasementMedia (vs denpc). I tried ipconfig /flushdns then ipconfig /registerdns but when I restarted it In network i still see denpc i'd like to...

I have searched the internet to try and find a way to fix this issue and have tried every registry hack I've come across but have not been able to fix this. From all the reading I've done it seems that this has been an issue in some way or form since windows 95! Here is a run down with how it...

Hi, new poster here. I've posted this to the Win 8 forum, but it could equally apply to Win 10. I have 3 windows machines at home - netbook, laptop and desktop. The netbook was bought with Win 7 has never had a personalised lock screen, now it's on Win 10 it has a generic Microsoft one. The...

it is a 7 year old computer that has Win 8.1 and drivers up to date it has been in daily use with my home Wi-Fi, but it has not been out of the house for awhile. We are on the road an we both are accessing our on road residence at the moment Wi-Fi with our surface 2 (Win 8 RT) and Surface 2 Pro...

So, I made a thread like this a while ago which was basically the same problem but I found a solution to it, which was a firmware upgrade on the router, but this time there is no firmware upgrade and I tried many things to try to solve it. Once again, this is only happening on my computer (Btw I...

My wife's laptop automatically updated Windows 7 yesterday and it seems to have disabled the wireless networking. Wired connection to internet access is fine. But wireless network connectivity is MIA. Looks like the "Network Adapter" was impacted with the update. Any insights into this and...

So, I made a thread like this a while ago which was basically the same problem but I found a solution to it, which was a firmware upgrade on the router, but this time there is no firmware upgrade and I tried many things to try to solve it. Once again, this is only happening on my computer (Btw I...

Hi - This is my first post so hope I'm in the right spot. I am using my own home network and can get online - when I hover over the bars in the taskbar for my signal it shows mine and also the unidentified network internet access. Can you tell me what this is ? It never used to be there and...

Partition 1: Win7 on Home network: WMC broke & could not re-install/sfc/repair fix. Wanted setup a 2nd prtn/wmc/S'dust HDHR3 tuner h'ware without losing my recorded TV which will still play, but not from a 2nd prtn (copy protection). 2nd prtn Win7 is not discovering the HR3 device, & seems...

So only recently, we have been experiencing disconnects from our router on all 3 computers and our Xbox 1. When they are turned back on, they are completed disconnected from the internet and must be manually reconnected which has been very annoying. The connection is fine until I close down one...

As you can see from the title, I am having issues with constant lag spikes about every ten seconds that last for about 2-5 seconds. I have an Asus laptop with Windows 8.1 and has never had this issue before. This appears to be the only device that is lagging on my network, plus I have the only...

I recently moved into a new place; it's a roommate situation, and our wifi is in my roommate's name. But my roommate has been threatening to change things so that only he has access to the wifi, and then I'll have to make some other arrangements if I want internet. This is because he's...

I am using Windows 7 SP3 .Earlier i used Dynamic IP as my Network Setiings . But one day the system crashed and since then the internet wasn't working . Then i had to change IP to static and enter the configuration Nos. like -- 192.168.1.3 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1 etc etc I now need to work...

Hi there. Since last night my laptop hasn't been unable to access the internet and it's limited access. Here are some notes and things I've done to try and fix this with no avail: Restarted router many times Restarted and shut down computer many times Troubleshoot comes up with there being a...

While checking in a flag in my Control Panel-Actions under Security I noticed that the bottom item, "Network Access Protection" is Off. Below that it reads that the Network Access Protection Agent Service is not working. 1. What is this and should it be on? 2. where do I turn it on. I have...