networking tips

A local sports photo dispatch and weather note out of Bluefield, West Virginia, puts two everyday realities on the same page: a snapshot from a Jaguars–Saints football matchup, and a forecast that calls for a mostly calm morning turning into a wet afternoon, with a milder, showery night to...

Sharing your internet connection on a Windows 11 PC through the built-in mobile hotspot feature is a powerful but often overlooked capability—one that can transform your desktop or laptop into a connectivity hub for other devices. Whether you’re facing Wi-Fi dead zones, working in an environment...

For countless Windows users, understanding how devices communicate across a local network is a foundational tech skill, yet many remain unaware of the simplest way to check their local IP address—a key tidbit needed for troubleshooting, router setup, or secure remote desktop connections. Knowing...

Resetting all network settings in Windows 11 is a powerful troubleshooting step that can resolve persistent connectivity problems by restoring your network configuration to its factory defaults. This process reinstalls all network adapters and erases any custom network configurations, such as...

Ever had those moments where you have guests over, and they'd like access to your Wi-Fi, but rattling off a complicated 16-character password is awkward, and writing it down feels too retro? Windows 11 has a hidden gem that makes sharing Wi-Fi passwords as seamless as ordering pizza online...

Here's the setup on my home network: Win10 Machine A - Win 10 Pro, Automatically logs on Using a Local Account (In Netplwiz I Unchecked that users need to enter a User Name/PW and have an admin account automatically logging in). Win10 Machine B - Win 10 Pro, Normal Logon process with a...

I've failed to find the answer on exisitng threads but if I have missed it, apologies. I am trying to link mjy laptop (W7) with the new PC attached to the TV acting as a media server (W7) with two Pure Sensia iintenet radios and wife's laptop running XP. I have a wireless internet running...

Alright Let me try to explain this the best I can and hope to hell someone can help me and my friends. This is sooo annoying its insane. Already simple explain is. We are at one of my friends out ( 5 PPL ) and we all try to connect to his internet. We have 2 Sony Vaio with Vista no problems, We...

In memory of Harold Hayes In 1991 I sold my moving company in New Orleans and moved to Bayou La Batre Alabama. I had been running a bulletin board and was networking through Fidonet. I found someone selling a couple hundred used Hitachi cd rom drives and bought them to sell to sysops running...