Knowledgebase : Networking
Domain Name Servers (DNS) provide a service very similar to the telephone directory. Most of us humans remember names better than they do numbers. Computers can remember numbers easily and can process them faster than names. IP addresses are numbers that ...
Sometimes, forgetting the wireless network and trying to reconnect to it afterwards can help. This is can be helpful, for example if people changed access points or routers, and the computer detects the same network coming from a different device. To for...
SUMMARY The best way to find problems with your Wide area network connections is to use the traceroute utility provided with most operating systems. Traceroute can tell you the path your packets travel as they leave your system and head for their destina...