I love to play games on my Android smartphone and I use my 3G connection to download them. But some games require you to connect using Wi-Fi before you can download them. Previously, I didn’t have a Wi-Fi router in my house, and neither did my smartphone support Ad-Hoc network (until you root it and [...]
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You want to keep an eye on who’s on your home Wi-Fi. This is for a variety of reasons: people could be stealing your bandwidth, resulting in you having trouble stay within your download limits. People on your network could also potentially take note of your personal information or company information. This means you should [...]
The world is going wireless and starting from our homes, we are too. If you look around, you have at least one wireless device…it may be a laptop or your smartphone. You may be accessing the web with your home Wi-Fi router, but the threat of a security breach never goes away. Our previously published [...]
Few days ago, I talked setting up and installing the HP Officejet 6500A Plus All-in-one Printer. If you haven’t read that post yet, I recommend you take a look at it first. This is the next post in the series of printer related posts that I intend to put up while testing the review unit [...]
If you’ve got a jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch then you could use this app called Wi-Fi Sync that lets you sync the device wirelessly with iTunes on your computer. So no need to connect it again and again to get those new playlists and podcasts. Check out the following guide to see how it [...]
If you have to access different networks with your notebook, say at home, work or on the go, you may need to manually change network settings. Different networks need different configurations and the “Obtain network addresses automatically” option cannot solve all the problems. Though Windows 7 provides an option to save multiple network profiles and [...]
There were times when every house had only one computer and one internet connection, generally delivered through a phone modem. Today, things have changed. Often there are two or more computers in the same household, and often at least one of them is a laptop. If you want all of these computers to be internet-enabled, [...]
Internet censorship is something which almost all of us, no matter where we live, encounter in one form or the other. Social networking or video sharing sites like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are usually blocked in offices. Some sites, like Pandora, are country specific. And if you are in a place like China, well, you’ve [...]
InSSIDer is an open source program for detecting wireless hotspots near you. It analyzes the signal travelling near the computer and shows all the important data regarding it. Unlike its predecessor NetStumbler, it works pretty well in latest versions of Vista and Windows 7. To start with the service, download and install it on your [...]
WiFi Stumbler is a web based tool to find WiFi hotspots near you. It can display information about channel, SSID, MAC address, signal strength, manufacturer and even the kind of encryption they are using. When you first visit the page, it starts scanning for the networks. It displays the result in a bar graph and [...]
To send data from one computer to another, you either need wires to connect them, or you need to purchase a router so that you can transfer data wirelessly. However, if your laptop or desktop computer has a wireless network card then it could be connected to another PC in your house, provided the other [...]
