A computer network in a domestic setting is called a home network. It usually smaller than an office network, just connecting two or three computers and a modem/router.
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Monitor all and any internet traffic from my home PC - what should I use?
I would like to monitor all and any internet traffic from my home PC to see what programs installed on my home machine are accessing the internet.
I thought I could use Fiddler for this but I noticed ...
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Any recommendations on a NAS for a home-super-user? [closed]
Can anyone recommend a good NAS for use in a home-server environment? I would request at least 2, preferably 4 disks, and I am most interested in good to excellent throughput for file-server and ...
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How can I get the same SSID for multiple access points?
I need to upgrade my existing wireless infrastructure and this time I want 2 access points to cover my house, since I get blind spots no matter what with a single AP. I have physical cabling to my ...
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What are my options for a multi-Terabyte home NAS? [closed]
I've got alot of DVDs and have been slowly ripping, encoding, and tagging them and I've nearly filled my WD MyBook 1TB. I'm estimating that I've got about 1.5 or 2Tb to go to complete my current ...
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How can I make my home PC a web server?
I am running Apache Tomcat on my PC. My PC is connected to a router in my house and the router is connected to my ISP. Now I want to run a server on my pc so that my frined can view my site hosted on ...
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Home Network Bandwidth Control
I will mount a home network to share the ADSL internet connection. The speed is 1Mb, but I want that my PC get 75% of the bandwidth and the another PC get 25%.
I know that linux boxes can do it, but ...
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Why are home networks prefixed with 192.168?
Why are home networks prefixed with 192.168 ?
Why those numbers?
For some historical reasons?
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Is it possible to combine two internet connections to increase performance?
I've got a small home network, 3 PCs plus a laptop or two when the relatives come to visit, connected to a single cable internet connection. Now, as soon as everyone starts using the 'net the ...
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2 Internet connections with VPN
I am connecting to a VPN through my home computer but when I am connected to the VPN I can no longer access the internet on my personal PC. I need to then remote desktop into my PC at work to get ...
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Can't access IIS7 from my home network
I have an IIS7 on a Windows 7 Ultimate.
IIS7 works fine on computer hosting IIS7. But I can't access IIS7 from another computer, I get the following message: "server is not responding".
How can I ...
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What is a subnet mask, and the difference between a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 and 255.0.0.0?
My DSL/WiFi router provided by my ISP has an internal IP address of 10.0.0.138, the addresses provided by DHCP are in the format of 10.0.0.xxx.
Now, I want to start using static IP addresses on my ...
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Any good utility to track outgoing traffic and requests from win PC? [duplicate]
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Monitor all and any internet traffic from my home PC - what should I use?
Hello, need an advice if there is any good utility to track all outgoing traffic, requests to ...
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Monitoring Bandwidth Across Multiple Systems in a Home Network
For the past several years, I have been using a simple software bandwidth monitor on my computer to keep track of my monthly bandwidth usage. It has worked fine (more or less; the numbers are slightly ...
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Port forwarding my router
I am trying run a web server on my static IP address but when I open my IP address its opening my DSL router how can I assign that IP to my computer
any ideas?
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How much will it cost me to run a Windows Home Server?
Anybody has any measurements of how much electricity does a Windows Home Server (say one of the HP models) use while being on 24/7?
I have an old PC running at home to store files that everyone can ...
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Intranet video-streaming
What's a good option for home-video-streaming?
For example, somebody may use a laptop webcam to stream their baby's crib allowing them to monitor it from the main home PC. In this case, I wouldn't ...
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Is the firewall in the wireless router enough?
I got an ADSL internet connection that goes into a Linksys wireless router that features a built-in firewall. Are those kinds of firewalls typically good enough for regular use, or should look into ...
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How can I restrict windows 7 to only use the local subnet, but block the internet
I want to block all internet connections to and from my windows 7 machine, but allow it to access everything on the local network. The local network is behind an Apple Airport Extreme.
What is the ...
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How to create WDS wireless link between two home wireless routers?
I have a Netgear wireless router (DG834Gv3) plugged into my broadband internet connection and hard-wired into my main PC. I recently bought a Bufallo Router / Wireless Access Point (WHR-HP-G54) and ...
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How can I make wireless transfers faster on a Linksys WRT54G running DD-WRT?
I have a Linksys WRT54G plugged into the cable modem, and a 2nd wireless router, an old D-Link plugged into that. Both wireless routers work, but if I connect wirelessly to the Linksys router I get ...
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Basic (cheap) wireless router recommendation for home
So, it looks like within a couple weeks we will finally be graduating from dial-up (a super user on dial-up? I know, I know). My dad has tasked me with finding out about a wireless router; he seems to ...
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How to use connectify to share files between 2 laptops, one running Windows 7?
I have 2 laptops one running XP and another Windows 7. Both have WiFi-card installed. I want to be able to share files between these 2 machines and then in next step also be able to share internet ...
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How to limit internet traffic in some computers of my home network?
I'm sharing my home wireless network, using a DIR-655 Wireless Router with 3 other people (2 using windows machines and one use mac laptop, I also use a mac laptop). I need to know how can I limit ...
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Monitor bandwidth on personal network [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I monitor internet usage in my network?
I have a personal Wifi network at my home used by the usual range of devices(laptop, desktop, smartphones etc.) I use a ...
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How access network computers by name
I have a local home network. The computers get IP address from a router via DHCP. So the address are dynamic and change. How can I assign names to computers to be able refer by name?
One computer is ...
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Can I to use 2 adsl lines simultaneously?
I've got a ADSL Router linked to a hub/switch, where are linked all PCs in my house. In my neighborhood I can get the line speed only to max of 600 kbps. I was thinking about contract another 600 kbps ...
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Exploring other windows 8 machine's root
I used to be able to type start \\other_machine\c$ in PowerShell and Windows Explorer would pop up with a login dialog. Then I'd type other_machine\moswald and my password (the account is a local ...
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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 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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Adding a second router to a home network
I have a home network setup with a Linksys E1000 wireless router. I want to extend my network range to a wider range of the house by adding a second router/switch. The location of the second router is ...
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How to share Internet between two computers via USB?
How can I share Internet access between two computers via USB?
I have a single wired network connection via Ethernet, and two laptops (one Windows XP, the other Ubuntu). Either the Windows or Linux ...
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Routing internet through ethernet to a computer without a Wireless adapter
I'm setting up a small home network. I have a laptop which connects to internet wirelessly- that works fine. I have a desktop connected to this laptop by an ethernet cable which I'd like to access the ...
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Can I make two wireless routers communicate using the wireless?
I want to make a setup like this:
cable modem <-cable-> wireless router 1 <-wireless-> wireless router 2 in another room <-cables-> PCs in another room
Basically, I want to extend my ...
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Protecting kids online
My eldest child is at the age where she will start using the web for school work and general interest. What can I do to protect her from encountering inappropriate content, while browsing the web ...
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Name reputable dns servers for home use (as alternatives to your ISP's)
Since it is becoming increasingly common for internet service providers to 'mess' with their dns service (by resolving unknown names to ad pages, etc) or their service is just unreliable, please ...
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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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The network can't be identified, what requirements must the interface meet?
I use a Windows 7 machine to share my internet connection, but the one network interface which are connected to my local network is marked as "Unidentified network", the sharing works well anyway but ...
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Transfer speed of Drobo vs. internal drives?
This question makes me reconsider Drobo, but I have a concern about data transfer rates. Wouldn't the USB (or LAN) connection be a significant bottleneck to my system?
My home media center PC has a ...
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Network Traffic Log
Background - On my "home" network I have a Linksys WTR45GL router providing my internet access as well as a wireless AP.
Connected I have
* 2 Windows PCs (wired)
* At least one laptop (Wired)
* Some ...
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What is the advantage of iSCSI over SMB?
At my house I'm running a Hyper-V server with a Windows Server 2008 R2 VM acting as a file server. Files are shared across my network using SMB. (Also, the machine is using a PERC 6/i RAID card but ...
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What does static DHCP mean? Static Dynamic is confusing
I've found some home wireless routers/ADSL+ modems (ZyXEL 660) talking about Static DHCP, when refering to assosiating a specific MAC to an IP, but still serve the configuration over DHCP.
Doesn't ...
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USB 3 to Gigabit Ethernet adapters: where are they?
I'm looking for an adapter 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 very ...
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How to connect a smart router to a dumb DSL modem?
Sorry for the very long question but in this case lots of details are necessary.
Problem: My crappy Thomson TG585v7 DSL modem/wifi/LAN router reboots many times daily. I think it's because the custom ...
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How do I set up a proxy server for home with bandwidth control, download limit options?
3 room mates share a single 2 Mbps connection. Have a 40GB per month download limit beyond which speed drops to 256Kbps which is annoying.
One of the roommates abuses the connection by downloading ...
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Is there a good DNS server I can install on Windows 7 for a LAN? [closed]
I have a few computers on my LAN, and now I'm getting tired of remembering the IP addresses all the time, so I would like to start using DNS names on my LAN.
I have a heterogeneous network with ...
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Block P2P traffic on a Linksys router WRT54G with Tomato firmware
I'm running a small wireless network (6 to 10 users) on a Linksys WRT54G with Tomato firmware sharing an Internet connection. I don't want the users to download files with BitTorrent (mainly used) and ...
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Can't ping other machines in my network
I've got 3 machines on my network, all running Windows 7.
None of them can ping each other, either by name or IP address. (And because of this, they also can't see each other on the network, can't ...
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Homegroup sharing problems
I can see other people in my homegroup and their folders, but when I click on those folders, I cannot see the contents (no error message, just nothing happens).
The other people in the Homegroup can ...
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What's wrong with my custom LAN cable?
This question is basically a continuation of this previous question. Never mind, here's the deal:
I've made a LAN cable that goes through a wall, but it doesn't work. The cable is roughly 10m/30ft ...
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How to setup a site that works in a home network
Please help, I don't have any idea on how to host a webpage on a home network.
Its just in a home network with 3-4 computers connected with a hub. And I've already installed wampserver on the computer ...
