I live in a small town in the boonies. Tech savvy is rare and the economy poor. People often come to me for help. So when a tech-phobic friend needed help with a network, I loaned her a Securifi ...

Apple has published a document detailing the best settings to use on your router and highlighting some of the security weaknesses you might encounter if you had the wrong settings. Luckily most ...

A MAC address may be the address of your Mac, but they’re not interchangeable. MAC stands for Media (or Medium) Access Control, a geeky term for a part of network communications between the actual ...

Linksys routers are designed to enable multiple devices to connect to the Internet at one time, but they often offer additional features as well. Some routers include a built-in firewall that protects ...

I've tried so many different ways to reboot my router, and it turns out the best solution costs barely anything.

When you set up multiple routers on a network, designate the router that connects to the Internet as the gateway and the other routers as routers. Configure the gateway with a WAN and LAN address, ...

Many administrators forget—or don’t even realize—that they can configure Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) on Cisco IOS routers and switches. David Davis discusses the pros and cons of this ...

It's high time you replaced your ISP's router with something better ...

We’ll configure the router or switch to send an SNMP trap to host 192.168.1.23 (the NMS) with our community string so we know it’s authentic. We want SNMP to send these traps if the interfaces go down ...