Several years ago, I wrote an article about how to access the Internet while travelling. It focused on using a notebook computer with dialup access, using a hotel business center’s computer (or a friend’s whom you were visiting) to access your emails. Little more than that So much has changed… Now, we have smart phones, [...]
iPhone and Network Printer Won’t Talk to Router
Subscriber Ed McDowell wrote to ask: Terry, I have been unable to get the router to see my iPhone and HP2550n laser jet printer. Both computers work flawlessly with the router. Any ideas? I called support at Linksys and (from what I could understand as I was talking to 2 people with heavy accents) they [...]
Apple’s New iPad is a Loser
It looks like I’m the one of the few people in the world who is not overwhelmed with the new iPad from Apple. In case you missed all the noise about the new Apple product, the iPad is shaped like a tablet PC (you know, the flat, non-folding PC that still hasn’t found a market). [...]
Mobile Phone Internet Connection Speed
Occasionally, I receive the kind of question that I just can’t answer. It may be that I don’t have any experience with that particular software or hardware. Or, like this question, the reader may be hoping for something that simply doesn’t exist: New subscriber Mohammed wrote to ask: Hi Terry, My Issue is I am [...]
Laptop Wireless Card and Router Doesn’t Work
New subscriber Al Rogenski wrote to ask about wireless Internet access. He has a card in his laptop and a router, but they won’t talk together. Al’s question was: I have a Verizon broadband card 770 in my laptop. I would like to get a router so I can set up a wireless network in [...]
Killer Applications for Smartphones
It seems that more phones are being sold now in the "smartphone" category than plain mobile phones. More people want to do more with their phones, whether it is listening to music, surfing the web, instant messaging (via texting or emails), and even working with applications used to be restricted to computers. I’ve used an [...]
High Speed Internet Options Without Cable or DSL
Some of my email and online issues resulted in a lot of similar stories of problems and solutions, as well as some additional questions. One interesting question was from Bob, who wrote to say: Terry… My brother is too far away from any substations to go DSL, Cable, or fiber optics, he is still on [...]
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