Lots of news recently about DNSChanger, malware that’s been around for a while. It can misdirect the infected computer’s internet connections to malicious sites. The FBI busted the ring back in November 2011. So, what’s the reason for all the news? The computers that are affected are still using DNS servers at the IP addresses [...]
Can’t Load Drivers for Wireless Card
Subscriber Phil Martin couldn’t get Windows Vista to reload the drivers for his new wireless network card, so he wrote to ask: Hi Terry, I have just installed an Edimax Wireless card into my computer running Windows Vista and I cannot get it to work. When I open device manager I get the following message [...]
Solving Wireless Computer Networking Problems
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 [...]
Strange Home Networking Problem Solved
I’ve been fighting a home networking problem for a couple months. The symptoms were strange, though, and the solution was even stranger… First, let’s consider the network. I’ve got a Cisco-Linksys wireless B/G/N router with four Gigabit Ethernet ports on it. I’ve also have a couple Cisco SD2008T 8 Port Desktop 10/100/100 Gigabit switches, but [...]
The Network Is Down – No Internet Access
I sat down at my computer recently to finish writing my newsletter, only to find the hated words "Not connected." Windows 7 was informing me that I had no network connection. Not just no Internet access, but not even access to the other computers on my home network. This was a horrible morning. Everything worked [...]
Debugging and Solving the Network Is Down, No Internet Access Problem
I sat down at my computer this morning to finish my newsletter, only to find the hated words "Not connected." Windows 7 was informing me that I had no network connection. Not just no Internet access, but not even access to the other computers on my home network. This was a horrible morning. Everything worked [...]
What is an IP Address?
Subscriber Joseph Murphy wrote to ask: I am wondering how an IP address is determined and if it can be changed and how? Thank you, J. P. Murphy. That’s a good question, Joseph. The answer can be simple or it can be used to educate. Whether you access your home network or access your Internet [...]
Sync’ing Data Between Two Computers
Subscriber Allan Pendlebury wrote about sync’ing data between two computers: Hello Terry I have become a little paranoid about having my personal files bouncing around in cyberspace (Dropbox) and purchased an Iomega Home Media Network Drive. I relied on Dropbox to synchronize files (mostly stock trades on Libre Office). I have a laptop and PC; [...]
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