Bidding adieu to IP conflicts, I enjoy reliable device access consistently and better control over my home network.

Knowing your IP address can help protect your home network and data from prying eyes. Here's how to find it. Trey Paul was a CNET senior editor covering broadband. His 20+ years of experience as a ...

The best way to see which devices are connected to your Wi-Fi (and find out their IP and MAC addresses) is to use the open-source tool Angry IP Scanner. It’s lightweight, runs on Windows, macOS, and ...

Internet Protocol (IP) is a numerical identifier for every gadget or network for users accessing the internet. The IP address of a user contains information like location, network identification, ...

Can we attach multiple IP addresses to a single Windows 2000 network interface card, similar to the way Unix systems support multiple alias IP addresses on a single interface? Yes. After the first IP ...

In recent issues of this and the Convergence newsletters (see the Convergence newsletter archives), we opined that there were few reasons why you would need a static IP address for a residential ...

I'm currently using a WRT54G router with Tomato firmware and I have a simple residential dynamic ip address cable modem. The cable modem is in "bridged" mode and the router is set to use DHCP to get ...

L ike many households, I had a sprawling home network of devices. Everything worked well, but it was becoming a little too ...

6 Types of Network Address Translation: Which One to Use? Your email has been sent Even though we’re no longer running out of IP addresses, Network Address Translation still plays a vital role. Learn ...

I have a user who's machine is not pingable on our network, using computer hostname or associated IP. However, in troubleshooting this, I see that the IP the machine actually has does not resolve to ...

If you’ve ever used a VPN you’ve likely come across the term “dedicated IP address.” But what exactly is a dedicated IP address, and do you need one? With a typical shared VPN connection, many users ...