Sharing an Internet connection with other household members or even neighbors is easier than ever. All you need is a solid wireless router with enough reach to give all parties lag- and trouble-free access to the Internet. All you need for that is to set up a wireless router in a location that is ideal [...]

Categories: ask the readers

Sometimes you may want to display information about your Internet connection right on the desktop, for instance to test the speed of a new dedicated server that you just bought, or to make sure that you are uploading or downloading at full speed. Having direct access to realtime stats can also be helpful if you [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I remember that I had to tweak Internet connections and network adapters under Windows 95, 98 and even Windows XP back in the days to get the most out of the connection. I never touched the network card configuration or Internet connection configuration under Windows 7. This can be attributed to improvements in this area, [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

We rely on the Internet more and more as every year goes by, or so it seems. Long gone are the days when the World Wide Web was a myth, and only the super-rich or the super-geek has an Internet connection. Long gone are the days when a connection was limited to 28kbps and was [...]

Categories: Knowledge

As a work from home guy I rely on my Internet connection. If it goes down, I’m cut off from work which could be disastrous, depending on the downtime. I have a backup connection just to make sure that I can always connect, and if everything goes down at once I have yet another backup [...]

Categories: Software, troubleshooting, Windows

With today’s technologies it is a lot easier – usually – to play games in a multiplayer environment. It does not really matter if you play the games on a local area network or over the Internet. Many games work out of the box, thanks to intelligent firewalls and systems that allow the traffic to [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

You may have seen an increasing number of articles about IPv6 in the past year. IPv6 is an Internet Protocol that has been designed as the successor of the currently used IPv4 protocol. IPv4 has been in use since the 80s and it is quickly coming to its limits. The main problem with it is [...]

Categories: The Web, troubleshooting

If you are on the move regularly with your laptop or netbook you may experience times where an Internet connection is available, and times where it is not. These network status changes are bad enough especially if you are working on a project that requires Internet connection. But there are also applications that you want [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

There are quite a few situations where you may want to test the network or Internet connection speed of the computer you are working on. It can be helpful to analyze network or connection problems for instance, or a tool for webmasters to find out how fast they can connect to their websites which is [...]

Categories: Software, Windows