Archive for 'Networking' Category
Tethering Windows Mobile With PdaNet
First the disclaimer: This isn’t necessarily something your mobile service wants you doing…and it may actually violate their terms of service. So, of course, I am speaking hypothetically about what I have heard…from a friend… If you aren’t familiar with the term “tethering” then let me give a brief explanation. Tethering is simply plugging your [...]
Software Review – Dropbox
Dropbox is a file sharing utility that you can use to share files among your own computers or with others on the internet. You install the Dropbox app on all of your PC’s and your phone and then anything saved to it is available across all of those PC’s and and phones. It’s also available [...]
Router Safety
The most important part of a home network is the router. A network can’t function without it. It’s also where many unsuspecting users go wrong. Not that they choose the wrong router – there really aren’t any wrong choices. Some may be more or less user-friendly, but they all do essentially the same thing. No, [...]
How to “PING” a Computer
If you are trying to set up a network and want to test the connection between two PC’s then the PING command is indispensable. Here are the easy steps to carry it out. 1. Click Start => Run and type CMD and hit Enter or click OK. 2. Type PING in the window and then [...]
Screencast 003 – Map a Network Drive
In this week’s episode we take a look at how map a network drive.
Fixing Windows 7 – Samba Issues
Today we’re going to get a little geeky here. I am running Windows 7 on my Desktop, Laptop and Media Center PC’s and FreeNAS on my home server. While neither the laptop nor media center have ever had a problem seeing FreeNAS, I have encountered several problems on the desktop. The end result was that [...]
Wireless Network Printing
One thing that Windows 7 has made extremely easy is printing from any computer on your home network, even wirelessly. We can set this up in just a couple of minutes. I have a USB printer plugged into my desktop and I want to print from my laptop while on WiFi from somewhere else in [...]
Internet Streaming from Windows Media Player
Have you ever been away from home and wanted to listed to a song that’s on a PC that is at home? Or maybe you want to show a photo or video to someone, but it’s on your desktop back at home? Don’t fret, we can solve that problem right now! The answer is Windows [...]
Adding Windows 7 to an XP Network
So, now that you have that shiny, new Windows 7 PC (or maybe you upgraded your older one) the first question that usually pops up is something like “How do I get this networked with my XP machine?”. It’s not as difficult as you may think. 1. You need to verify the workgroup name on [...]
