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Reliance Jio, an all new mobile network ready to be launched in India is the talk of the town these days.

A Chromebook has a teeny amount of storage. Google expects you to store most of your stuff in your Google account. However, if you’re on a network you can also use a network drive with a new Chrome extension by Google. Network Attached Storage is o

The MAC (media access controller) address is a unique identification number for your computer’s networking hardware. Generally, it just works, but sometimes you need to change it. Apple and Microsoft don’t make it easy to change your MAC address,

Today, data breaches, hacking and snooping are happening frequently. Not a day goes by without news of a company’s database getting leaked or some government censoring or controlling more part of the internet.

Traditionally desktop PCs haven’t had any wireless connectivity hardware pre-installed on them. Usually they have got internet connectivity only via the Ethernet cable.

In the article about how to use Microsoft remote desktop, we explained how to connect remotely to your PC. But for that to work, both PC’s were required to be on the same local network. What if you are far away from home, using another Wi-Fi or mob

Monitoring data usage on a smartphone is a challenge.

A Virtual Private Network (or VPN service for short) is a way to connect to the web securely. While at first mostly used by businesses to connect to remote data centers, VPNs have now become very popular among individuals mainly because they allo

Remote Desktop is great for connecting to a Windows computer from another part of the network. You can get access to local drives, printers, files, etc. as if you were sitting in front of it. While this is great, an issue arises when you have multipl

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Do you have different Wi-Fi or LAN connection settings at your home and office? Do you tend to change DNS settings often while browsing the internet? If you do have to configure your net

Mapping a drive simply means to connect a local drive with a specially allocated shared directory or folder on another computer. After a drive has been mapped, you can access the shared resource and treat it as if it’s located locally on your own c

When you install an app on Android (I am sure, the example will hold for other smartphone platforms as well), you’ll have to agree to some list of permissions the app would require on your phone for proper functioning. If at all it needs to use y

I am writing this article sitting at a café and working on a Wi-Fi connection. In my country (and I guess in a few other places too), Wi-Fi broadband is notorious for fluctuating and flagging speeds.

If you are a regular internet user, I am sure you must have landed on pages showing a warning that they are monitoring your IP address, and thus you need to be a bit more careful with what you do etc etc. No, it’s not FBI or CIA that’s after you

Do you have any idea how many files did you download on you system when you opened this particular webpage? The exact amount of bandwidth you consumed? No, I guess.

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Most of the modern households these days have more than one computer.

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.