Subscriber Arthur Wood wrote with a wireless networking problem — he needed to get his wife’s new smartphone to connect to his wireless network: Terry, My Wife purchased a Galaxy 10.1 32g, How do I attach it to my Router Cisco WRT 120N. Any assistance would be appreciated. I wrote back to Arthur to tell [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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