Questions tagged [network-adapter]
A network interface controller (also known as a network interface card, network adapter, LAN adapter and by similar terms) is a computer hardware component that connects a computer to a computer network.
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What does the "Fi" in "Wi-Fi" mean?
I just got into a heated discussion about Wi-Fi. What does the Fi in Wi-Fi mean? I would have thought potentially "frequency interface" since all network adapters are classified as interfaces. However ...
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Windows 8 Hyper-V - how to give VM internet access?
I've got Windows 8 Pro on my home machine. I want to have a Windows 7 Professional VM running under Hyper-V, and I want the VM to have full internet access. My physical machine has a wireless network ...
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What is the difference between NAT / Bridged / Host-Only networking?
VMWare: What is NAT vs. Bridged vs. Host-Only?
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Are MAC addresses unique when coming out of the factory?
According to Wikipedia:
A Media Access Control address (MAC address) is a unique identifier assigned to network interfaces for communications on the physical network segment
But how unique are MAC ...
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Remove an unused/hidden network connection so that an existing name can be reused
How can I safely remove a network connection that is no longer visible in Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Network Connections on Windows 10?
I want to reuse the name of a previously existing ...
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What does `Wake on Pattern Match` option mean in network card preferences?
I know Wake-on-LAN standard, but I don't understand the use case for Wake on Pattern Match option in the network card preferences. What are the advantages of it?
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What angle is optimal for the antennas on my wireless network card?
I'm sharing a house with some friends and I'm in the bedroom right up in the attic. The router is right down on the ground floor and I get connectivity issues.
I've found that if I adjust the two ...
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Using two wireless NICs at the same time on Windows 10 desktop PC
I have read similar questions in the past (i.e. How do I use my dual band Wi-Fi card to connect to 5GHz and 2.4GHz simultaneously on Windows? and Connect multiple WiFi networks simultaneously), ...
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Why is my laptop favoring the wireless connection over my LAN connection?
When my laptop comes out of sleep, I have to typically wait about 90-120 seconds before my network (wireless or NIC card) 'wakes up'.
During that time, I see my wireless connection with 'limited ...
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Tunnel adapters on ipconfig?
Hello I recently noticed unusual information in my IPCONFIG. Usually I only see Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection, but now I see Tunnel adapter isatap... and Tunnel adapter Teredo... I was ...
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How do you check the current duplex value of a network card set to Auto negotiate in Windows?
I would like to know what duplex (half or full) my network card has negotiated with a switch when they are both set to auto configuration in Windows.
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How can I determine which network adapter my browser is using? How can I change it?
I have multiple network adapters on my Windows XP system. Is there a way I can establish which adapter Firefox and Internet Explorer are using? Can I force them to use a specific adapter?
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Does 1 Gbit/s port in full-duplex mean 1 Gbit/s send and 1 Gbit/s receive?
I'm figuring out the best router for me based on their performance.
When you have a 1 Gbit/s port in full-duplex, does that mean you can send 1 Gbit/s and receive 1 Gbit/s at the same ...
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How do you create a new network eth?
I have a machine that has eth0 and eth1, and now I want to create an eth2 and assign it some IP address.
What's the command for doing this?
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I have LOTS of TAP-Win32 Adapter OAS and TAP-Windows Adapter V9
What are these, and what are they used for; how do I get rid of this? Because I haven't got OpenVPN or any other VPN-client installed on my computer (to my knowledge).
I am not sure but I thing this ...
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How can I determine the MAC address for a NIC in CentOS without using ifconfig?
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One of my CenTOS systems recently booted with the following error:
"Bringing up interface eth0: Device eth0 has difference MAC address than expected. ignoring."
When I run ifconfig -a ...
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Issue with Wifi Adapter with Docker Windows (Native, HYPER-V)
I just received a brand new work laptop and immediately installed the native version of Docker for Windows.
However I am seeing an issue that everytime the new network adapter for Docker via Hyper-V ...
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Can Somebody Explain About Wi-Fi Device Manager Settings And Power Settings In Windows 7?
Sometimes I have low Wi-Fi signal and I am curious about the Wi-Fi settings in Device Manager and Power Settings. I would like to get an exhaustive explanation about each, so let's start with Wi-Fi ...
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How to get rid of auto-generated sequence number in network's device name in Windows?
Every time one plugs in the same usb wireless adapter in a new usb port, Windows creates new network device with auto-generated sequence number which looks like this
Wireless-N USB Network Adapter #2, ...
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500 Mbit/s powerline network, only 3.5 Mbyte/s transfer speed?
I have a TP-Link 500 Mbit/s Gigabit Powerline Adapter linking two computers (one Windows Vista and one Windows 7) in different rooms in the house. As in:
Computer <-Ethernet cord-&...
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Optimal setting for advanced parameters for Realtek PCI-e GBE family network card
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I am trying to get the best possible setting for my Realtek PCI-e GBE family controller network card so that when it will be literally minimal or zero lag when playing online game.
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Creating a virtual NIC that connects to the same network as physical NIC
How can I create a virtual interface, that connects to the same network as the physical interface? I tried searching around but all I found is loopback. I need the other end of the wire recognizes ...
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How to reinstall the host-only network adapter in VMware 7
I've this problem when I want to use "Host only" network adapter in VM-Ware 7.0 this is the error message:
The host-only adapter driver does not
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How to fix network connection dead on startup, but okay after disable/enable?
on Startup
When my system starts up, the internet connection is dead. This causes various problems with startup items such as updates and auto-start programs failing.
However, the connection is fine ...
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How to Tell If NIC supports Gigabit Ethernet
How do I know if my network card is capable of gigabit speeds under Windows 7?
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How to Load Balance 2 Internet Connections on a Windows 7 machine?
It's sort of related to this particular question, but that one is on Mac. I am looking for similar solution on Windows 7.
I have 2 network connections:
(Connection A) Wireless terminal connecting ...
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How to make vEthernet (Default Switch) appear in Network Connections of Control Panel again?
In my Windows 11 machine I do not see the vEthernet (Default Switch) shown in the Network Connections of the Control Center (Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections) or Settings (...
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Computer refuses to boot in UEFI mode - gives error about Intel Gigabit network card
I just tried to boot my machine in UEFI mode, but got this message:
the system cannot find the UEFI driver for the add-on network devices [0x10D38086]
I'm running Debian Linux, but I'm not sure if ...
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Change MAC address of Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260
I tried to follow the instructions here, but my card doesn't seem to have that option. Is there another way to do this?
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Where can I find my NIC’s GUID (for use with ForceBindIP)?
I’m trying to create a context-menu item to run ForceBindIP. I saw a similar question that discusses doing this, but I don’t know how to find the GUID for my network interface.
Where can I find it?
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Increasing link speed on OpenVPN (bandwidth)
I have bought a tunnel service by using OpenVPN. For a year I've had 10 Mbps max upload/download speed but now I've bought an additional 20 Mbps making the available total bandwidth 30 Mbps for me.
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Browsing website hosted in the virtual machine from host machine's browser
I have installed Oracle VM Box and created a Virtual machine. Now I have hosted(in IIS) a website in the virtual machine. I want this website to be browsed in the host machine's browser.
Can anybody ...
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Mac: number of bytes transmitted over interface
On linux, I'm used to typing ifconfig and looking for the line with "RX bytes" and "TX bytes" in it to find out how many bytes have been received and transmitted over a particular interface since boot....
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What is "Authentication failed" status on network adapter
I did not know that network adapter can even have status such as "Authentication failed":
Do you know what is causing this and how it can be resolved?
The network connection through this adapter is ...
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Open settings of X network adapter from CMD/BAT
How to open setting of the specific network adapter via commandline in Windows 7 Enterprise?
I'm under domain user but also have access to local administator user.
Under domain user I have no rights ...
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Get active network interface on Windows
I'm developing an application that provides a UI to windump, the packet sniffer. Windump has a "-D" parameter that lists all network interfaces it can find, and then you can specify which interface to ...
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How to disable/enable network adapter from command line on the Windows 10?
Currently, when I need to disable/enable network adapter I'm performing the following steps:
Opening the device manager (⊞ Win+R, devmgmt.msc and Enter).
Searching for the required network adapter.
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My internet speed wont run at 1.0 Gbps on my Realtek PCIe Family Controller [duplicate]
I have an asus Gigabit Router and a gigabit NIC (Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller) witch is running at 100Mbps rather than 1000Mbps (1.0 Gbps).
When I use an old laptop on the same Ethernet cable(...
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Capturing wireless traffic (using Wireshark)
When I run wireshark on a wired network it works fine and reports all of the packets.
When I run it on a wireless network though I only see my own traffic. The wireless card I have is supposed to ...
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Load-balance with LAN and Wi-Fi
I have a Mac, which runs Mac OS X 10.6 or Ubuntu 9.10 or Windows XP (Multiboot). Solution can be for any of the systems, whatever works better.
I have two ISPs, one can be accessed via Wi-Fi, one ...
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Set up two (2) IP addresses on the same network card?
I think it is possible to set up 2 IP addresses and subnet masks on one NIC in Windows XP.
How can this be done?
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10 Gb network card connection
I have just bought the intel X540T2 shown below and when I opened my machine I am not sure if I can plug it in any of the available PCIe slots shown below? If anyone could please advise
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What is "Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter" used for?
When I type ipconfig /all command in Windows command prompt, it shows some adapters with description of "Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter" (see image below).
Where did they come from ...
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VirtualBox reinstalling & updating has left me with Too Many Network Adapters. How Do i remove them?
I have too many network adapters. I have had to reinstall, repair VirtualBox a few times, and I have three NICs in my laptop.
I definitely don't need to have 14 bridged networking drivers though, and ...
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Why aren’t there any USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet adapters out there?
I’m looking for an adapter that will let me use a USB 3.0 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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How much bandwidth does a T1 typically give?
We're about to move into a new apartment which has a T1 for $35 a month. How much bandwidth does a T1 usually supply?
Right now we are with Comcast cable which theoretically gives us 14mb down / 7mb ...
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Missing 1 pin in my Ethernet Port - Can I get 1gbit again?
One of the pins inside my Ethernet port on my laptop was bent, so I tried to correct it but it broke off.
It's the leftmost one (it connects to the white/orange cable).
My internet is working but I'm ...
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Check Box -> Show icon in taskbar notification area when connected is missing in windows 7
Please see the picture below ,
this is on my network adapters properties :
where is the General Tab In this Network adapter ?
Also, I couldn't find that check box for Display Network Icon on ...
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How can I change the MAC address of Microsoft Loopback Adapter?
I am trying to designate a MAC address for MS loopback adapter. Installation is fine. I see in device manager, the adapter and in advanced tab, I enter the mac address I desire. But when I do in cmd ...
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how to remove a Proxy Virus (127.0.0.1:8080) from windows 10
it seems that my proxy is always active. If I disable manual proxy configuration it turns on again. I've tried to delete some registry keys but the same keys appear again.
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