wireless networking

For years, wireless networking has moved in lockstep with operating system support, each leap in speed or reliability requiring both the right physical hardware and matching software smarts. With the arrival of Wi-Fi 7 and the recent inclusion of official support in Windows 11’s 24H2 update, PC...

Sharing your internet connection has become a standard part of modern digital life, but many Windows 11 users are still surprised to learn that their PC can easily serve as a mobile hotspot. This simple yet powerful feature can transform your laptop or desktop into a wireless access point...

Ask any longtime Windows user about their favorite new feature, and you’re likely to get a response ranging somewhere between “I just want it to stop updating during dinner” and “Why did they move the Task Manager again?” But beneath the memes and groans, Microsoft’s steady churn of updates is...

I have win10 on a machine on our home lan. the lan functions perfectly for 5 other machines on it. Also for that machine most of the time. but sometimes it will boot with no connection - though 'connections available' and sometimes even with 'no connections found' where the previous night it...

I have an old (10 years) computer which I have had to reinstall Windows XP on.This was done using the original installation disc. To use this disc I had to reformat the hard drive. The computer is now running XP again. The original installation disc was of course also 10 years old so the...

Hi All, I have 2 laptops both running Windows 7.I want to connect them remotely.I am using different Wireless PC datacard on each machine and both system connected to Internet.I want to connect them remotely over internet. Lets say Laptop A(connected to Internet with datacard A ) and...

Hi Guys, I really love my Lenovo T61p, specifically I love the 1920x1200 resolution that you don't get nowadays. Even though it's a well spec'd out laptop, the problem is that it is choking at times with the payload of software I want to run simultaneously - I'm a web developer that works from...

Hello, I have an interesting problem that nobody can explain to me.... I have both wired and wireless network cards on my W7 64Bit laptop. When I connect to my router via the wired network everything Internet is fine, no issues no errors. When I connect with my wireless card, W7 reports...

Within Windows This week, I was disassembling software that a major, to-remain-nameless OEM, put out for their netbook customers. I was ready to call them out on code that deliberately bypassed a licensed feature check in Windows, enabling ad-hoc wireless networking… but when I booted up...

So, my little brother got tired of his inferior machine and gave it to me. After upgrading the HDD to a 320GB 5400 RPM WD Scorpio Blue, i also gave it a total of 2GB DDR RAM, and decided i liked Windows 7 so much, i wanted to dual boot, so that i may keep OSX (for clients) and still work this is...

If the ease with which Win 7 Beta Bit 32 Build 7106 could be installed into a system board built in 2008 [ Zotac nForce 610i-iTX with NVIDIA MCP73 SERIES Chipset, Intel LGA 775 socket (I installed Intel celeron for this limited budget system) with just 2 Memory slots for max 4 GB DDR11 533/667...