Questions tagged [lan]
LAN, short for Local Area Network, is a network that connects multiple devices in a limited geographical area, such as a room, an apartment or a building. Currently, most LANs are based on Wi-Fi, linked together with means of a central wireless router or Ethernet transmission, where computers are linked via cable.
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Computers connected on LAN ports, via a wireless router, are unable to communicate
What I have
Linksys WRT54GL with DD-WRT replacing the original firmware
Linksys is connected to the internet on the WAN port, standard stuff
2 windows (7 and 8) desktop computers connected via the ...
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How to interconnect two different LANs?
I have two different routers connected to different ISPs having different LANs. I want to set up the network in such a way that we can connect to devices on the other LAN or ping devices on the other ...
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Using Win7 PC for routing
I would like to use a Windows 7 PC with 3 Lan cards and 2 Wi-Fi as a router.
For example, I have a PC with 3 LAN cards and two Wi-Fi cards. I would like to use one LAN card to connect to the public ...
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Using LAN port instead of WAN port
I have a small query regarding WAN port use on the Router.
Why is it not possible to use the regular LAN port on the router to connect to the ADSL modem+Router(with just 1 RJ45 port and 1 RJ11 port). ...
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LAN adapter works every second time I turn my PC on
I have a really strange problem and I am desperate for help now, since I could not find any solution on the internet.
Specifications first: I am using a desktop computer and a router. The router ...
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Relationship of routers to networks
I was wondering, in networking, what is the relationship of routers to networks?
Can the same router be the gateway for 2+ networks? For example, if I have a wireless router at home, can I configure ...
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Not getting gigabit Ethernet speeds between 2 computers
I am trying to connect two computers together using a Cat6 cable. Both computers have gigabit Ethernet cards, and the "Network" tab in Task Manager reports the link speed to be 1Gb/s for both. One ...
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PPTP server not functioning (or set up) correctly
I've set up a PPTP server on Ubuntu Sever 14.04. I need to allow a foreign client to access the LAN, but NOT attempt to use my internet connection. When connecting to the VPN the client loses internet ...
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Connect My Laptop To Internet Using the LAN Port On My Desktop [closed]
My desktop is connected to my home WiFi network using a USB WiFi dongle (managed by windows). The LAN port on the desktop is empty.
I am working on a microcontroller project where I need a ethernet ...
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How to resolve physical device for home LAN's 10.0.1.1?
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How can I find out the physical device corresponding to 10.0.1.1 (in my home LAN)?
(I tried dig, which gave no physical device info, and nslookup and host, both of which failed. BTW, ...
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Web usage monitoring
We are group of friends working in shared wifi network.
Can anyone of us monitor what other guys are surfing from their computer?
Is there any tools or Admin right for such monitoring?
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Cannot reach the computer in WAN
I wanted to split the internet connection in my room. And my brother also wanted a better wifi accessability. So we bought a router (NETGEAR JWNR2010v5). All we wanted works great, good wifi. I have ...
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Lan settings constantly being changed to proxy server in Windows 8.1
Now matter which of three ways I go in and change my settings to automatically detect, within 15 to 30 seconds it flips back to having the proxy server option checked. This started happening two, ...
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Slow LAN connection on one machine but not another
I am using the same ethernet cable on two different machines and getting two incredibly different results. The following tests were done on a Windows 7 desktop and a Linux laptop.
On my laptop, ...
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How to set some static and some dynamic IPs for different computers on 1 router/modem?
So I currently have 3 rasberry pi's stacked up connected to my network.
My router has a built in modem (Actiontech V1000H) which has 4 LAN ports and 2 WAN ports?
Not very sure, I dont know the ...
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laptop not connecting via docking station
I am using Windows 7 Enterprise - Service Pack1. I was previously able to connect my laptop to the LAN via a docking station.
However, I can now connect to the LAN through the wire or connect ...
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Using WLAN and LAN in parallel for Web and Remote Desktop?
There are multiple similar questions already on SU but they seem to refer to increasing the bandwidth by using LAN and WLAN in parallel.
What I would like to do on Windows 7 is using WLAN for surfing ...
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Send files between two systems over LAN
I am able to send the files from one to another system connected on same router in a LAN.
Now, I connected one more router to the first router to increase the range of wireless connectivity.
When I ...
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Is there a way to give a device LAN access but not internet access?
I have a WiFi device that I want to be able to connect to other machines on my network, but not to the Internet. I have an ASUS RT-N56U Router. I have looked through the router settings and searched ...
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Set up a website on my internal network and access it with a domain name instead of IP
I have a small local network, with the following devices: a Belkin n150 router (older generation), a Dell laptop running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (GNU-Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64) as my server, and another ...
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Wifi Snooping over phone [closed]
I connect to the wifi acccess-point at work, but recently
I suspect that data on my phone is being snooped-out from my phone connected to my office's Wifi network.
[Phone Model: Sony Ericsson Xperia ...
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Why can't I access my EC2-hosted website from my LAN? DNS resolves to correct IP
I am trying to access my website (which is hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance) from my LAN in any browser but it does not work from any of my computers, except my iPad (which is definitely using my WiFi)...
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Wireless receiver and Ethernet switch?
Is there a device that can pick the router wireless signal and allow LAN connection between two computers by itself?
I want to use Steam In-Home streaming without having a large Ethernet cable ...
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Access web server on LAN using IP fail
I have a web server in my LAN with IP: 192.168.1.103, I can only access the web server from browser in this computer through http://localhost:8080, I cannot access it through 192.168.1.103:8080, nor ...
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Setup LAN to serve webpages and voip and access to the web site from inside LAN with domain name
I'd like to know if it will work:
I have my domain and I'm serving a webpage in a nginx to the internet, but if I type my domain in my laptop inside LAN I access to my modem/router configuration, I ...
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Synology NAS upload speed very slow
When I copy huge files from my NAS to anywhere in my LAN, the upload speed is not constant. I experience that expecially on HD movies, which are hanging. This is the network graph:
The NAS is ...
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Discovering hosts in a different subnet
There is an OpenWRT router with two interfaces: br0 and wlan0:
br0: 192.168.129.0/24
wlan0: 192.168.130.0/24
br0 is in firewall zone lan and wlan0 is in firewall zone alien.
I have configured zone ...
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Connecting a PC and Webserver without router
I Have a Small Ubuntu Web Server setup on a device and know that it works as I use it to develop locally. I want to connect it to my laptop, withought using a router between it and my pc -> a single ...
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CIDR < 5 not allowed
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Two NICs have been connected using an ethernet cable. The ethernet adapters have been configured as follows:
NIC I
IP: 8.0.0.1
Subnet mask: 248.0.0.0
NIC II
IP: 8.0.0.2
Subnet mask: 248.0....
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Setting up dns server on an isolated lan
I have a LAN with 2 laptops, 1 router, 2 NAS and a printer.
I want to have a dns service but i do not want to have a pc permanently connected for that service.
As i can define a preferred and an ...
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Two laptops not connecting via LAN cable
I wanted to share my data between the two laptops and here is what I did in the following order:
Installed Realtek PCIe FE family controller on both the laptops.
Disabled firewalls completely over ...
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All of my Windows computers won't connect to the Internet (LAN or WiFi)
My Windows computers:
Desktop - connected to LAN. Error: LAN connection / Ethernet Adaptor may have a problem
Laptop - connected via WiFi Error: "Limited Access"
Laptop - connected via WiFi Error: "...
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How can I make DHCP enabled wifi from Static IP LAN using Laptop?
I have a LAN Connection with Static IP. I want to make a DHCP enabled Wireless Connection using my laptopso that I can use Internet in more than one devices.
Earlier I made the Wireless Connection ...
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Can i join one server with multiple ethernet wires to switches
I saw one video where the user has one 100mb switch and other Giagbit switch.
Then he has his all servers first network card connected to 100mb switch and second to the
Gigabit switch
he says that ...
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wifi usb adapter can connect to one, but can't connect to another wifi network
On the desktop computer I'm connecting to a wifi using usb wifi adapter. I have two available networks, my home network and the one from the neighbor. When I want to connect to my wifi network, it ...
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Extend Wifi via Intermediate 3g
This is what I currently have:
(Device1).....Wifi.....(Device2)
And this is what I need:
(Device1)...Wifi...(RaspberryPi1)...3g...(RaspberryPi2)...Wifi...(Device2)
The 2 Devices should not get to ...
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tcp retransmission on lan, wifi is fine
I have a Dell XPS 17 laptop (about 5 years old) running Windows 7 and a Synology RS412 NAS. I also have various other networked devices (servers, routers, laptops, pcs). Some are in my domain, some ...
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membership of level 2 vs. level 3 network
Managing computers for UNIFI routers "have to be in the same level 2 network" as the managed routers.
Is a computer behind the same internet modem router, but in a different IP-network, in the same ...
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Can not access local network through devices connected through wireless
I have a D-Link DSL-2750U ADSL router (Firmware version: IN_1.08).
I have 4 devices connected with following IPs:
Router (10.0.0.1)
WireConnected1 (10.0.0.4)
WireConnected2 (10.0.0.5)
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Windows networking suddenly not working across the LAN
I have a small LAN containing three PCs (two on Win7 Ultimate x64 and one on XP Pro), a Samsung network laser, and a Drobo box (with DroboShare).
At some point in the recent past (and I'm not sure ...
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Can only ping one way through a VM router
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I have two local networks (one a VirtualBox internal LAN) and a Win2K VM acting as a router between them. I can ping hosts from one network to the other, but not vice versa.
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I am ...
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LAN transfer speeds cat6 vs wireless
The current setup is one file server (windows) serving 3 other windows 7 computers (identical spec) via cifs/windows file sharing. The server is connected via ethernet cable to router(netgear wndr3700)...
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BIND DNS server (Windows) - Unable to access my local domain from other computers on LAN
I have a BIND DNS server running on my Windows 7 development machine and I'm serving pages with WAMPSERVER.
My ideia is to develop some tools (in PHP) for my intranet at work and I want them to be ...
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Sharing a folder in LAN with a password using Folder Lock Software
I have a problem in sharing my created locker in the sharing server of my LAN. Let's assume that the address of the sharing server of my LAN is \\192.168.1.1 and there I stored the locker. Now, after ...
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Folder Encryption in a network
I am using Windows 7 and I want to put a password in my folder in a LAN.
Example: The \192.168.1.1 address is the Server of File sharing in a LAN (in my case). So all of the PC's that are connected ...
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Hide computer from list, but keep file sharing and remote desktop service running?
Is it possible to hide my computer from local network's list of computers, but keep its ability to provide file sharing and remote desktop service? (I mean something like hidden SSID on WiFi network, ...
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Browse folders/files of another PC in the wireless LAN using the browser
I would like to browse folders of another PC in my wireless LAN using a browser (chrome, IE, firefox).
How do I need to configure the computers and the wireless LAN to accomplish this?
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How can I achieve Gigabit LAN speed without wires?
I have a Netgear Router which connects to my Cisco router. I have a gigabit switch which connects to my servers in my Garage..
I am currently connecting with wifi adapter on my desktop (in my room) ...
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resolve a name for internal ip
I have searched for an answer and nothing seems to fit right.
Here is what im looking at:
Local LAN setup with both wireless and wired connections, any number of different users/operating systems/...
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I want to ping IP using LAN cable not wireless
I have one machine connect to network using two method :
Wireless
- got internet access
- Class C ip : 192.168.2.xx
- Connect with local network with few PCs.
LAN
do not have internet access
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