Just ask any economist: When a commodity is in short supply, several things happen. The price goes up, rationing begins, and people start scrambling for substitutes. Globally unique Internet addresses ...

Hey gang, <BR><BR>So I've got an ipod touch with a new PPTP VPN option and I wanted to see if I could set up a VPN on my home linux machine so that if I needed to use unsecure wireless somewhere, I'd ...

Before connecting a printer to a local area network, to prevent problems from occurring down the line, businesses should make sure that their networking, hardware and software setups will allow the ...

NAT, or network address translation, is a function embedded in even the simplest of SOHO routers. Simply put, NAT hides your device’s “real” address from the network by translating this address to a ...

In the context of IP networks, the phrase “quality of service” (QoS) has a specific meaning, describing the quality of the network with regard to the following: These are all particularly important ...

We just saw that the mask determines where the boundary between the network and host portions of the IP address lies. This boundary is important: If it is set too far to the right, there are lots of ...

IP addresses on your company network consist of three parts: the network address, the host address and the subnet mask. The network address identifies your broad network, and host addresses identify ...

CNET editor Dong Ngo points you in the general direction of how to access your home network remotely using a Dynamic DNS service. Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since ...