A majority of network managers spend at least 25 days per year troubleshooting network and application performance problems, eating up time that most would agree could be better spent on other ...

If you have ever opened Network Neighborhood or My Network Places and discovered that some of the computers on your Windows 95, 98 and Me home network had vanished from the list, you may have ...

If you use a USB-connected networking device, unplug it and then plug it back in. USB Wi-Fi sticks are notoriously finicky. Next, reboot your router by unplugging it, waiting 30 seconds, and plugging ...

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In previous articles we’ve built some useful servers. But this time let’s take a look at one of the most powerful network troubleshooting tools ever written: the mighty “ping” command. You may have ...

Sometimes, the wireless router and dongle we use to connect to the Internet function like useless heaps of plastic. No matter how hard you try to connect, the device doesn’t respond to your request.

In many ways, the art of networking today is quite different from when I entered the field about 17 years ago as a part-time student assistant in the networking group at the university where I was ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s more at stake than lost productivity when application response times slow to a standstill. Company revenue also takes a hit. Aberdeen Group recently surveyed 200 organizations and found that ...

This is senior editor Dan Moren. We take networking for granted these days, but it’s still a complicated beast. If you want to go under the hood, Apple includes a suite of tools on your Mac to help ...

Warrington, UK. IDEAL Networks is touting its NaviTEK NT network troubleshooting tester as a tool to help Overcome network troubleshooting challenges in hospitals. The company says that as mobile ...