For those of you who may be replacing your old switches with new switches from Enterasys, you may be wondering as to how you go about accomplishing basic switch setup such as setting ...

There are times when you need to add a static route in Windows 7.  One example in particular is that you have two network cards that are connecting you to different networks.  You ...

VLANs or virtual local area networks allow for a wide range of capabilities when it comes to segmented and connecting different segments of network traffic.  However, there can be ...

Gone are the days where we have laptops that have a built in physical serial port for connecting a serial cable directly to the back of the box.  This is also becoming if not already ...

If you are a system administrator and you are looking for a utility to manage your network, spin up a helpdesk, manage your inventory, create and customize reports, then Spiceworks ...

Take a look at the diagram below.  It is easy to see visibly how data packets are transferred between the different OSI layers on both ends of a data communication connection AKPC_IDS ...

We have all heard that there just simply aren’t enough version 4 IP addresses left to sustain the bulging growth of the Internet.  There has been much speculation on a date that ...

We have all heard of Power over Ethernet, but have you heard about Ethernet over Power or powerlines that is?  For those of you out there who do not have a recently built house with ...

Many computer users have heard about something called an IP address in relation to how they get on the Internet and so forth. Also, many if they have been on the phone with their ISP ...

One of the most common types of things that most individuals want to do or setup with their computer is setting up a wireless network. Nowadays, many families have mulitiple computers ...