In an upcoming blog I expect to write about configuring a home router, which requires logging on to it. This, in turn, requires knowing the IP address of the router. Non-techies typically don’t know ...

If you're troubleshooting some network problems in your office and some computers are connected to a router, you may need the IP address of each computer, its primary DNS server and the default router ...

An IP address is a unique identifier for a specific device on your network. Your router assigns them to these devices using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). As you connect new devices to ...

An IP or Internet Protocol address is a unique string of values that makes your device visible on the Internet or Local Area Network (LAN). If you know your Router’s IP address, you can change its ...

Tired of being the only wireless network in your apartment building without a clever name like “Wu-tang LAN” or “Bill Wi the Science Fi”? Or maybe you want to make your network password more secure so ...

Networks, and the internet, don't identify computers (of any size, even your smartphone) by the name you give them. Computers prefer numbers, and the numbers they use as identifiers are called IP ...

To find the IP address of your router, you'll just need to open your computer or smartphone's internet settings page. Once you've found your router's IP address, you can use it to open your router's ...

A MAC address may be the address of your Mac, but they’re not interchangeable. MAC stands for Media (or Medium) Access Control, a geeky term for a part of network communications between the actual ...

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 ...