You might just have a need to reset your router to its defaults.  This may happen if you router stops working, freezes or just because you have forgotten the password. The two most common methods of resetting your router are: Method 1 Power off the router. Press and hold the reset button. Power on the [...]

When you want to learn something, learn it from Google. That is what the search god showed other ISPs when it rolled out its first attempt in networks at Kansas City. The onset of Google Fiber and Google Fiber TV will be a good lesson for the cable companies and network carriers who always blame [...]

We have been looking for a Swiss Army Knife in the router market. No, we are not kidding!  Whenever we got a router, we always felt the need to look for some other model or accessory since nothing has given an all-out solution. Finally, we have found a Swiss Army knife in the router world [...]

Mushroom Networks announced a new product.  Its line of Truffle broadband bonding products just received another Truffle: the Truffle with a new enhanced QOS (Quality Of Service). Don’t look for this product at your favorite Radio Shack or Fry’s Electronics store.  This device has a target audience of businesses, government agencies and data centers. The [...]

Convergence is a term used in computing to refer to a number of relatively new phenomena relating to the integration of various technologies. For our purposes in this tutorial series, we have restricted its meaning to the impending integration of home entertainment technologies with computer networks. The following graphic displays how a variety of new devices [...]

Now that we’ve spent a few weeks getting our home network up and running, it’s time for the important stuff. Last week we began by sharing the printer. Sharing such resources for you is the real reason we have come this far and now it is going to all pay off. File sharing is probably the [...]

Last week, DeviceMAG took an unannounced break from the Networking 101 series of tutorials. We apologize for that unavoidable transgression, but we are back. The last tutorial demonstrated how to create a network of computers on the Microsoft Windows platform. Now that all of your computers are on the same network, it is time to find out exactly how the network [...]

Setting up all your computerized devices to share resources can be a bit tricky. If you recall last week’s article, we hooked all your devices to the Internet by connecting them to your Internet service provider (ISP) through a wireless router. This week we will take the fundamental steps to create a network that allows [...]

This week we will be connecting all the computerized devices in your home together using your new wireless router. Recall from last week’s Networking 101 article entitled Router Basics I that you have acquired many new gadgets over the holidays. You now have two desktop computers instead of one, plus a laptop, a tablet PC, three smartphones, [...]

So, you’ve graduated, not from high school or college, but to something really cool. It’s after the holidays and your family no longer has just one desktop computer in the house, you now have two! …plus a laptop, a tablet PC, three smartphones, a smart HDTV with a radio frequency (RF) universal remote control, and a new gaming console; and they [...]

Plenty of programmers would just as soon be hired by a startup than by any established company. It’s an opportunity to help build the next Facebook, Groupon or Foursquare, rather than maintaining or improving upon someone else’s work. But there are a lot of different things to look at when you start job-hunting among startups. [...]

Since beginning this Networking 101 series nearly three months ago, each article has been leading either directly or indirectly to the upcoming series of articles, beginning with this week’s topic: Network Routing is for “You.” It was during the first few weeks we promised to discuss routers because routing is the key to separating computers into distinct [...]

Last week we completed our discussion on Cloud computing. The Cloud is a collection of smaller networks existing within the greater network known as the Internet. We begin to realize the importance and the full potential of the computer network when we fully understand the overall picture of its architectural design. Trying to understand that bigger [...]

Last week we opened a can of networking worms called the Cloud. Because of its ubiquitous infiltration into techno-babble literature, and its relative hazy definition therein, we’ve decided to investigate the Cloud a bit further this week. From the perspective of the client computer (e.g., netbook, tablet, and smartphone) currently using the Cloud, we find it is quite instructive to [...]

What exactly is the Cloud? If we envision the Internet as the atmosphere surrounding our Earth, then we can speak of patches of clear sky, randomly interspersed by opaque condensations of misty humid areas. These precipitants can be pictured as tiny networks within the overall larger atmospheric Internet. The sum total of these smaller networks within the Internet is commonly [...]