Category Archives: Networking
How To Find If Someone Is Connected To Your Wireless Access Point
If you suspect someone is connected to your Wireless access point and is leeching your Internet connection, then there are some simple check ups you can do to see if someone is indeed using your wireless router. let me explain. In order for someone to use your wireless Internet connection he needs to obtain an IP address from your router, … Continue reading
When Connected To Work VPN From Home Affect Local Internet connection.
If you use Windows VPN to connect to your work network, then you might already have noticed that while connected to VPN the computer uses the VPN connection to connect to the Internet by default. for example, we block YouTube at work, and when I connect to VPN from home, and try to go to YouTube from my home computer, … Continue reading
Networking Two Home Computers
is amazing how many people visit this site looking for a way to network their home computers. I have written a few articles about home networking in the past, and because most of home networks consist of two computers, I will talk about that setup on this post. common reasons to network two or more computers in a home network … Continue reading
Change Verizon DSL Wireless Router DHCP IP Address
Recently I switched my Internet provider from Comcast to Verizon DSL, and one of the first things I did on the router was to change the default wireless DHCP IP subnet. the reason I did that was because I cannot connect to our company VPN using the default 192.168.1.x subnet in the Verizon DSL modem. this is one of the … Continue reading
Creating An Image Of A Hard Drive With Clonezilla
Now that we have Ubuntu and Clonezilla server up and running, is time to get our hands dirty with the real purpose for this thing. if this is the first post that you are reading about this series, I recommend you read the rest of the posts to get acquainted with what I been doing. Windows 7 Network Installation Installing … Continue reading
How To check When Was The Last Time A User Changed His AD Password
Remind users to change their domain password is important to prevent security vulnerabilities on the network. there are many password reset and password change reminder tools out there that you can use to remind people to change their password, but if you have a tight budget, and a small users database in your AD, this script probably will work for … Continue reading
What’s up with Comcast DNS problem?
If your ISP is Comcast, then probably your Internet connection is not stable. you would think a giant ISP like Comcast would have redundancy on their DNS Servers, or another sort of reliability strategy, but nay, their DNS servers keep going down, and fixing the problem does not seems to be their priority. for those non-tech people let me explain … Continue reading
How To Network Home Computers
If you have a router or a switch to connect multiple computers at home, then you most likely already have a small network. if you came here looking for a way how to setup a home network to share printers,files, and some other basic stuff then read on. What do you need to setup a home network? basically to setup … Continue reading