Understanding the many layers of WiFi has been fairly confusing. You would see 802.11 followed by various letters. The generations didn't go in alphabetical order so you had to dig a little deeper to figure out which technology was the newest and whether your...
I've already shared some of the tasks involved with a new laptop. Probably the most important task was moving data from the old laptop to the new laptop. As the office it networked, it was fairly easy to do it. But there was an interesting glitch along the way. Our...
You may have heard that Google changed the company name to Alphabet. You'll find CEO Larry Page's explanation for the change on the G is for Google blog post. In short, there are many smaller companies that make up the new Alphabet of which Google is one piece....
From time-to-time, I'm asked to do some minor IT tech support for a local company. Typically it involves a client having troubles connecting to the Internet and I'm asked to get them connected. I had just such a call this week and had to set up a Netgear N600 WiFi...
If you are looking for a bargain basement WiFi Router then this post is probably not for you. Instead I'm going to tell you about one of the biggest baddest routers on the market and you'll have to pay a bit more for that power. Just looking at the picture of the...
For many of us, our connection to the Internet goes through a wireless router. It could be your laptop, a tablet, a smartphone or even some other device using that wireless connection. Heck, even desktop computers can use WiFi if a wired connection isn't readily...
No matter how hard you try to make sure your wireless router reaches everywhere in your home or office, you'll often have some dead spots. I've got a couple of dead spots in my house and I take them as a sign that I shouldn't be using my devices in that part of the...
Most of us now have some way for broadband Internet to entire our house or business. The speed of your Internet is dependent on whichever company is providing the service to you and speeds can range from painfully slow to insanely fast. Once the Internet has...
I think back a few years ago when it was a big deal to have a wireless network, any wireless network. Now it seems as if any electronic device you buy will have wireless capabilities. When our office first got wireless, the main Internet connection was a shared...
Halloween has arrived and I'm sure there will be a bunch of kids running around tonight in scary costumes. Unfortunately they never visit my neighborhood. Maybe they are scared of the coyotes? That leaves a weak wifi signal as one of the scariest things I'll face...
