The process of troubleshooting your network involves a methodology that starts with cabling and works through the OSI model to the application layer. The network devices have a network cable that ...

But troubleshooting a network when you're not constantly on-site can be difficult, especially when the problems are intermittent (as they frequently are). One alternative is to temporarily connect a ...

Windows 11/10 comes with this troubleshooter in-built. If you recently installed a new driver or some hardware and find some things are not working as you’d like them to, use this troubleshooter. On ...

Fiber optic cable was once reserved for high-performance needs, but today it’s turning up in all kinds of networks. If you’re familiar with copper cable, you’ll quickly discover that fiber optic cable ...

Back when I worked in the Network Operations department at one of my previous jobs, we used to chuckle when a customer would call us reporting that “the Internet is down.” Now, I realize that there ...

Don't be fooled by vendors hawking more WiFi hardware when the existing data on your network can be used to solve the same problems. Troubleshooting WiFi problems has been the bane of the network ...

In many ways, the art of networking today is quite different from when I entered the field about 17 years ago as a part-time student assistant in the networking group at the university where I was ...

Your PC isn't working. It crashes every time you open a game, or it inexplicably falls to a BSOD when you're doing just about anything. Maybe it's your RAM? No, it has to be your GPU. Or maybe it's ...

Households are increasingly becoming multiple-PC homes. And as people add extra PCs to a home, they naturally want to share files between those systems. Typical multi-PC households also tend to have ...