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 ...

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I often have to find the IP address of a machine I'm working on (or need to work on). Sometimes, I need to unblock an IP address of a machine on my network, so the machine can reach a network share ...

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Install nmap if you don't already have it on your Linux computer. Run "sudo apt-get install nmap" on Ubuntu, or "sudo dnf install nmap" on Fedora. To do a quick scan of your network and discover the ...

It's movie night, but instead of relaxing on the couch, you've spent the last 23 minutes searching for your Roku remote that's playing hide and seek again. But then, you remember: you can actually ...

Every device that connects to a network, including your iPhone, uses an IP address (short for Internet Protocol address) to communicate with other devices and access the internet. Think of an IP ...

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