Most businesses connect together multiple workstations to a single network using a switch or a router with an integrated switch; the router then assigns an IP address to each connected device. The IP ...

The useful program ping can be used to quickly test connections on your computer network. sends a signal from your computer to a specified network address. If the computer at that address responds, ...

I have about 30 computers on a mishmash network using a bunch of $50 10/100 switches connected to an $80 (woohoo!) NetGear Gigabit switch. Every so often I will get communications failures between ...

I have a user who I am trying to setup VNC for. Normally this isn't a problem, but in this case I cannot get his computer to allow VNC connections. After some investigating it turns out that the ...