As home routers get more powerful, they get smarter features that make them easier to use and provide a better experience for ...

Households are increasingly becoming multiple-PC homes. And as people add extra PCs to a home, they naturally want to share files between those systems. Typical multi-PC households also tend to have ...

In an effort to ensure the success of the mobile workforce, scientists from the University of California in San Diego have developed an automated troubleshooting system for wireless-access networks.

Network problems are issues that everyone has from time to time. It can get annoying when it happens but it is a part of our connected world. Fortunately, there are tools available that make it easier ...

Whether your organization has deployed IPv6 or not, you may end up troubleshooting IPv6-related issues as other nodes on the Internet move to dual-protocol connectivity. We need to consider how the ...

If your DSL connection is on the fritz, don't just sit around cursing your ISP. Consult these troubleshooting tips instead. Even if your DSL broadband Internet connection inspires you to write glowing ...

As you likely know, Wi-Fi networks are trickier to troubleshoot than wired LANs. One well-known reason is that the network access medium—the unlicensed airwaves—is intermittently subject to ...

Network troubleshooting can challenge even the most experienced IT professionals. New issues can crop up any time a device is added or the network changes, and it can be difficult to determine exactly ...

I know, with how much I talk about monitoring your home network, I haven't been as fastidious with my own network. Things are constantly in flux: the home lab network changes weekly to test new ...

Network technology improves and advances every year. New standards promise interoperability, new devices simplify configuration, and monitoring solutions declare preemptive problem resolution. Does ...

The process of troubleshooting your network involves a methodology that starts with cabling and works through the OSI model to the application layer. The network devices have a network cable that ...

Back when I worked in the Network Operations department at one of my previous jobs, we used to chuckle when a customer would call us reporting that “the Internet is down.” Now, I realize that there ...