I received an email recently from a subscriber who was having problems with his wireless networking from his computer, but his wife’s computer was working fine. Unfortunately, that’s all too often the type of problem that happens with wireless networking. When it works, it works nicely. When it doesn’t work, figuring out what’s going wrong [...]
Accessing the Internet While Travelling – 2011 Style
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, [...]
Notebook Won’t Connect To Wireless Router
Subscriber Howie Kipnes wrote this week with a wireless networking problem. It used to work, and now it doesn’t on one of his computers. Howie’s question was: Hi Terry, My latest issue involves not being able to connect to the internet with my new laptop. It is a Dell Inspirion and I’ve had it for [...]
Secure Your Wireless Router – Or Face the Consequences
It’s happened again — an Associated Press report today NY case underscores Wi-Fi privacy dangers reports on another case where an unsecured wireless router was used to download illegal images – and resulted in the innocent router owner’s home being broken into by police, the homeowner arrested, and his family’s iphones, ipads and computer being [...]
Can’t Connect to Wireless Router
Wireless networking isn’t the easiest thing to set up or to keep running correctly. That’s what subscriber Russ McDonald found out recently. He wrote to ask for some help: Terry, I have a HP laptop running Windows 7. I have been using Firefox for my browser for quite some time. Recently it quit working as [...]
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 [...]
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