When an Ethernet or wireless network is installed in the home it's called a Home Network. It's exactly the same technology as an office network, but usually a lot smaller in scale and traffic. There may be special problems in the home where wires have to be fitted into existing spaces rather than ...
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see bandwith usage by wired clients (MACs) in home network
In home network, 4 devices are connected by LAN cables to the router. Router is simple DLink supplied by ISP. I need to know which bandwidth is used at the moment by each of 4 "clients" ("cables").
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Router/modem TG580v2 giving weird results
In my setup, I have the Thomson's TG580v2 router/modem, my PC connected to it via cable, and AppleTV, iPad and iPhone connected wirelessly.
First issue: AppleTV can't find my PC unless it is ...
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Is it possible to configure TP Link ADSL router to work with cable connection?
I have purchased TP Link ADSL router a while back when I was connecting to my first ISP via ADSL.
Now, I have changed the ISP to a cable company and am having trouble setting up the router to connect ...
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how access Apache server on Ubuntu(10.0.0.6) from windows vista(10.0.0.9) inside local network?
I have Apache server on Ubuntu that i can access with 'localhost' - network local adress 10.0.0.6
I have windows vista with local adress 10.0.0.9.
I want to able access ubtunu 'localhost' from ...
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Why is my network utilization a sawtooth wave?
I've noticed that my broadband link always gives me a sawtooth shaped utilization graph when I'm downloading large files. It looks like this from Task Manager on Windows 7:
When I'm doing large ...
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Setting D-Link Modem in “Bridge mode”
I am trying to extend the wireless network in my house.
I have a cable modem attached to a D-Link DIR-635 wireless router. This works fine if I am in the part of the house near the router.
I have ...
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How to connect to localhost port from android?
I have one problem. I have EasyPHP server on my local computer. I am making program that is connecting to PHP scripts and returns me result to my local PC. Everything works nice I am using ...
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Extremely slow LAN read speed from 1 computer, good everywhere else
I have a multi computer pseduo ad-hoc home network using Windows 7 Homegroup and some Remote Desktop on occasion. This has worked well to date until I added a new machine and now I am having trouble ...
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Does pFsense support web caching?
I am thinking of installing pFsense at home. Basically, one of my main goals is to increase the concurrent connections. Some people here are using Bittorrent all day long and as you might know it ...
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Unable to connect to computer name other than for file sharing
I have a computer on my network at home called "shuttle" running Win XP Pro. I can connect to this machine's file shares by visiting \\shuttle and it works fine.
However, the machine also has a web ...
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Using a dedicated computer as proxy to home broadband router
I'm thinking of creating a proper home network and using a single machine dedicated to access control, centralised authentication, DHCP and acting as a proxy for internet access via a separate home ...
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iMac user can't access NFS mounted home directories with sudo
I've just reinstalled my iMac on my home network, and have mounted the user home directories via a NFS share (hosted on an Ubuntu server).
The problem I have is that when I use sudo, I get permission ...
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Get my domain-joined work computer to work in my home network
In my home network I have a wireless router to which you can connect two USB drives. I use these disks much like a simple NAS.
The problem is that my work computer that is connected to a Domain on ...
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how to set laptop win7 as a router using ICS?
I have Windows 7 Ultimate in a laptop which I use internet with my wireless connection I have another connection which is local area connection I set the default gateway my another laptop
I want My ...
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How to set permissions for specific remote user in Windows 7?
I want to give permissions to a specific user on a remote machine on my local network. In the Select Users or Groups dialog the From This Location field is locked to my computer, when I click the ...
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Does beetel 450TC1 router support WLAN? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
how to configure a wireless LAN using my ADSL router (beetel 450tc1)
I want to share files and stuff with my roomie over wifi. But it is not happening right now. Can it ...
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how to configure a wireless LAN using my ADSL router (beetel 450tc1)
I want to be able to share stuff with my roomie over our apartment Wireless connection but currently it is not possible. Is there a router setting that will make it available for us?
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Make my Virtual Machine invisible to outside world
I am a total newbie to installing and working on server platform. Just to see how things work I went ahead with installing Ubuntu Server (LAMP) 11.10 on Virtualbox installed on a Ubuntu 11.10 desktop ...
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USB 3 to gigabit ethernet adaptors: where are they?
I'm looking for an adaptor that will let me use a USB 3 port as a gigabit ethernet port. This is proving surprisingly hard to find! Is there some reason why this product is either unavailable or ...
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Secure alternatives to VPN?
I need a way to access my home network (well, specifically just one server on the network) from anywhere. Usually I would use Himachi (free VPN client, made things very easy) but it has since become ...
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Slow ethernet connection on Lenovo IdeaPad s10
I got this netbook from my friend when he bought a new one. All it needed was a charger and it was up and running again. I wiped his HD and installed Debian (crunchbang) and noticed immediately that ...
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Router unable to stream files
I am having some problems with my home network. I have a server and client, with the server having a lot of movies on it, and it is supposed to stream to the client though a normal network share.
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Centralized PulseAudio setup
I want to do a setup, so that all my computers and TV use one audio system. Like this:
Where media server is connected to acoustics and TV is connected through sound-card input and other systems ...
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What type of router (non wifi) for DHCP assignment?
So I have a pretty large house that use to be connected to a business network that had a DHCP server. However we've disconnected that business network and put in residential internet so I need a new ...
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Sharing internet connection on multiple networks Windows Server 2008
I have a server running Windows 2008 R2 x64 with a total of three network cards: one on-board, one PCI, and one Wireless USB dongle (D-link DWA-140). The on-board card is connected to the internet, ...
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Internet connection slow, unreliable, but torrent speeds unaffected
Occasionally, I'm unable to reliable use the Internet from any client device.
My torrent client is unaffected, transmitting at the speeds I have it set to.
Web pages just don't load, or take a long ...
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How to change LAN address range with Motorola SBG900E?
I'm trying to get work VPN properly working from home (problem is, when it's enabled, I can access the private network but not public internet). A colleague suggested I should try changing my home LAN ...
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How can I distribute USB broadband internet connection over my LAN?
I am using a wireless USB adapter with my PC (I have Windows XP installed). I want to distribute this USB network connection through the LAN card of my PC using a hub so that my three other friends ...
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Setting up a Wireless Repeater in a home network
Main router/wap
Netgear WNR3500 (manual)
2nd wap
D-Link DAP-2553 (manual)
Goal of Network
The main router/wap (Netgear) sits in the corner of the house. The wireless tends to have a poor signal in ...
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Fault finding on wireless and wired network
My home network is proving very unreliable. Setup as follows -
Upstairs Office - All ethernet wired
Switch connected to downstairs router
Desktop PC
Windows Home Server
Oki Printer
Downstairs ...
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Copying large number of files accross home network - crashing
I'm trying to copy a number of files from one machine to another on a wireless home network. There are around 5,000 files, each roughly 3-5 MB (mp3s).
My problem is that the network keeps crashing ...
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How can I connect to a home automation web controller?
I've bought a remote web controller for home automation. I'd like to write a client software by myself, because the built in interface is ugly & not user friendly.
Thus, I'd like to find the ...
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Electric Socket Powered Ethernet Network gives strange IP address
So, all of a sudden, one day I turned on my PS3 and could not get an IP (ethernet) from DHCP from my router. How strange I thought. It's ethernet wired through those home networking electric plug ...
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Why does ssh disconnect, complaining about a corrupt packet?
I run a cluster of 5 computers and I have used ssh-keygen to allow for keyless entry from my main computer to any of the 5 remote computers. A single router connects my main computer with a network ...
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Remote desktop to a computer without screen
I have a laptop with Windows 7 and an older stationary with Windows XP. When I had a screen I set it up for use with remote desktop. I no longer have any screen, and used to connect to it using remote ...
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Can I use DIR-655 for internal DNS?
My DIR-655 is set up as a DNS relay. Now I'm hoping it could act as a simple authoritative DNS server and respond to internal lookups such as laptop, htpc or file-server.
Browsing the admin ...
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USB > USB (PC > PC) direct connection Windows XP
From this thread, Windows Easy Transfer is a solution to connect two Windows computers over USB to USB, but this software only transfers user settings, documents, and application, all in one step. It ...
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Connect to Ubuntu Share From Fedora 16
I am having some trouble connecting to an Ubuntu 10.10 server.
I am using Fedora 16.
Some things that I have tried
The server and all of its shares can be seen on the windows computer.
I can ping ...
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Homegroup and HomeUsers group
I have some troubles with homegroup's feature using two windows 7 64-bit based devices (laptop and desktop).
Desktop is connected via LAN cable and the laptop via WiFi. Both use the same subnet and ...
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Permanent local IP on Windows and Ubuntu systems
I use an Ubuntu system and frequently connect to my parent's Windows system on the local network. But, using DHCP, the computers IP address are always different, making it a chore to find what IP ...
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Get Internal IP Address From DHCP Hostname [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How access network computers by name
I would like to try and get an internal ip address of one of the computers on my network. The reason for this is I have a little ...
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Two routers on the same network
My ISP has supplied me with a modem/router all in one and it isn't very good. It loses its settings and dies frequently. So I have another router in my apartment (Linksys wrt310n) that is connected to ...
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Router stops Working
I have been facing the problem since a couple of months..
I have bought an Edimax wireless router for my home network from ebay. Now that router had some serious issues with overheating. It used to ...
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Use Windows 7 PC as internet filter for home network
I would like to use an old Windows 7 box as a filter for my internet traffic. I'd like it to serve as the DHCP server as well so that I don't have to manually setup a proxy/gateway info on all my home ...
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will this network topography work?
I have a router on one end of my house.
I've run one cat5 cable to the computer on the other side, and now (of course) I want a laptop to have a hard connection to the net there as well.
Can I just ...
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How to bypass firewall to connect to a proxy server?
I am conducting a small experiment on my office network. I have setup a proxy server on my desktop machine (connected to my LAN) and I have volunteers access the internet via my proxy server. ...
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Network use of Gaming PC
Background
After YEARS of waiting, I built the custom gaming PC of my dreams:
Intel i7 - 975 Extreme Edition 3.3ghz (overclocked to 4.0)
ATI Radeon 5970 2gb
Corsair 256 gb SSD Drive
2 TB Sata II ...
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Is there a way to partly make an ethernet cable wireless?
I have two AP's, one in each house on my ranch. The houses are about 20m apart. One AP is sitting in a window facing the other house, but the other is deep within the second house. My internet router ...
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Windows 7 Host does not answer to ping
Today I tried printing on a shared printer on one of our homegroup members. Sadly it did not work (printer marked as offline). Shortly after, I noticed I can't even ping the machine that owns the ...
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Is it possible to trace fellow nodes on a DSL internet connection?
I'm not in my college campus right now. In campus we had private LAN. There my computer was directly connected to a gateway. Using subnet masks I used to find out fellow nodes on my subnet. There were ...
