If you have ever opened Network Neighborhood or My Network Places and discovered that some of the computers on your Windows 95, 98 and Me home network had vanished from the list, you may have ...

Households are increasingly becoming multiple-PC homes. And as people add extra PCs to a home, they naturally want to share files between those systems. Typical multi-PC households also tend to have ...

Excerpt from CCNP TSHOOT 642-832. Cisco IOS Diagnostic Tools: This section shows how a few readily accessible Cisco IOS Software commands can be used to quickly gather information as part of a ...

But troubleshooting a network when you're not constantly on-site can be difficult, especially when the problems are intermittent (as they frequently are). One alternative is to temporarily connect a ...

Don't be fooled by vendors hawking more WiFi hardware when the existing data on your network can be used to solve the same problems. Troubleshooting WiFi problems has been the bane of the network ...

Microsoft has tried to make it easy to set up a Windows XP network, share files and printers, and share an Internet connection. The Home Networking Wizard makes all the necessary network settings ...

This tip is excerpted from "Network troubleshooting and diagnostics," Chapter 4 of The Shortcut Guide to Network Management for the Mid-Market, written by Greg Shields and published by ...

Figure 1. Link and activity lights can tell you a lot about the connection between two network devices. All network architectures rely upon a physical (or RF) connection between devices.

Struggling with Windows 11 "Safe Mode with Networking" error? Discover proven, step-by-step fixes to restore your system ...

Your PC isn't working. It crashes every time you open a game, or it inexplicably falls to a BSOD when you're doing just about anything. Maybe it's your RAM? No, it has to be your GPU. Or maybe it's ...