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Home Entertainment Networking: Quick, Easy and on a Budget

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Current household entertainment systems are advanced beyond anything we could dream of ten years ago. Reasonably priced flat screen TVs are so big that if you saw a tube TV that size in a store during the 90s it would have been downright silly. Add to that the addition of surround sound HD audio, quality [...]

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What To Do When Your Router Runs Out Of Ethernet Ports

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Many cheap routers these days only include 4 Ethernet ports for wired networking, but even if your router includes 8 ports or more, you may encounter the problem of running out of ethernet ports—especially if you use lots of today’s cool networked devices, like voice-over-IP, [easyazon-link asin="B0036OR910"]TiVo[/easyazon-link], and streaming radio players. Do You Need To [...]

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5 Uncommon Home Network Problems

March 29, 2011

Home network problems are a common occurrence now days. Just think about it? Everyone is now on the internet and most houses have some type of network setup to enable more than one computer to use the internet connection. Unfortunately this means that there are more Home network problems because people are settings these up [...]

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Find the IP Address of Other Computers on Your Home Network

March 10, 2011

In the old days, if you wanted to find the IP address of other computers on your home network, it would be a big ordeal. If you wanted to avoid doing everything the hard way, and you still wanted to know the IP address of the other computer, you would usually have to get out [...]

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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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Add a Network Printer to Windows Vista or Windows XP

June 4, 2010

Now days the average household has more than one computer and share available resources over a home network. No-ones wants their house cluttered up with unnecessary office equipment, and this is exactly the reason why we need to use a network printer. For example if you have three computers on your home network you would [...]

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Network printer has problems printing – You do not have permission to use selected printer

June 1, 2010

When you have a network of two or more computers in your house, it is very easy to then connect one printer to facilitate both computers. This is a network printer. It can be a normal printer connected to one of the computers and the other computer accesses the printer over the network. However sometimes [...]

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Why should you have a home computer network?

May 30, 2010

By Mitz Free computer Education I know we all survived quite nicely in the past, without a home network, and even only one computer per household. However now days, most households have more than one computer and in this case, why not setup a home computer network. Here are some benefits of having a home [...]

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What is the difference between network LAN, WAN, and MAN

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What is the difference between LAN, WAN, and MAN. I know they sound a bit stupid, but these are the three different types of networks that you can have. When these connections become wireless they are renamed WLAN, WWAN, and WMAN. When you venture into wireless networks you will need to make sure you have [...]

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SMART Housing: A Networking Horizon for the house of the future

May 30, 2010

Welcome to the future The housing industry is undergoing major networking technology development. A new smart housing project is going under way headed by companies such as Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Panasonic, Proctor & Gamble, and Whirlpool. They collectively trialed an experiment called “Laundry Time” which integrated a washing machine, TV, PC, and cell phone. The [...]

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Computer Networking Tips

May 30, 2010

Back in the old days networking computers was just not heard of in the normal household, however now we all need computer networking tips, as we are all involved with some type of networking in one way or another. An average household had one computer with one internet dial-up connection and that was it. Can [...]

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Network Troubleshooting Commands

May 30, 2010

Troubleshooting computer network problems is among the most important job descriptions of the network administrators, system administrators, network technicians and the IT consultants. A computer network can have different kinds of problems such as it can be infected with virus and spyware, attacked by hackers, accessed by unauthorized users and may face connectivity failure issues [...]

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