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 ...

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 ...

Windows Server 2003 makes it easier to obtain IP addressing information. Previously, to find out the IP address for a Windows NT or Windows 2000 system, you had to use the IPConfig command-line tool.

Ben Khalesi writes about where artificial intelligence, consumer tech, and everyday technology intersect for Android Police. With a background in AI and Data Science, he’s great at turning geek speak ...

The internet relies on a system of addresses that treats every computer, tablet and smartphone as a distinct device, allowing all of them to communicate with each other. Because many kinds of devices ...

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 ...

Billions of computers are linked through the Internet. And with so many devices communicating and exchanging information, each one needs to have a unique identifier so that the right information ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

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