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Basic Networking Explained: How To Connect Two Computers

April 6, 2011

How do you connect two computers to the Internet? That was a question that perplexed me the first time I tried to do it. I didn’t know what I needed to buy and how I would connect it all. Complicating the situation, there are several ways to connect two computers. One way we previously wrote [...]

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How To Use Two Wireless Routers In The Same House

March 23, 2011

If you have a big house (or office), you may find it necessary to run two wireless routers (or more) to share the internet connection around efficiently. Although you can just plug in both routers and start using them, a bunch of little network problems caused by having two wireless routers will soon start to [...]

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What is Bluetooth

August 9, 2010

No matter the commercial in recent years, it seems every product claims to be bluetooth enabled. The other day I think I heard about a loaf of bread even having bluetooth access. The question begs to be asked; exactly what is bluetooth? To many people, its sounds like something you’d get from kissing a smurf. [...]

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What is a static and a dynamic IP Address?

June 10, 2010

On your home network, when you connect to the internet your computer is automatically assigned a unique IP Address. This is called a Dynamic IP Address and is randomly chosen and could possibly be a different number each time you connect. If the first computer has 10.0.0.1 as its IP address and another computer connects [...]

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Intel Power LED 9-pin Front Panel Header Connection

May 26, 2010

Special attention is required when attaching the front panel connectors from the computer case to the desktop motherboard. If you get it wrong you can easily  damage your components. This is especially true when you are connecting a motherboard to a computer chassis or case that was not made for each other. ATX motherboard design [...]

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How to restart or shutdown a computer through a remote desktop connection

May 26, 2010

When you are connected to another computer by remote desktop, did you ever notice that the shutdown and restart options are not there. The computer that you remote desktop to must already be on. But if you regularly use remote desktop, at some stage you will want to restart the remote computer from where you [...]

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