The internet has become an integral part of our professional and personal lives, with over 5 billion people using it every day. Long gone are the days of copper being the main way of connecting to the internet, with many people now connecting through fiber optic cables. Fiber optics offers numerous advantages over traditional copper…
A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a secure network that is created over a public network (the internet) by using encryption and other security mechanisms to ensure that only authorized users can access the network and the information transmitted over it. A VPN allows users to securely access a private network and share data remotely…
Depending on your environment, you may want to disable IPv6 on all networking connections, including wired and wireless connections. To do this, you can use a simple PowerShell script: Once you have run this script, you can go ahead and check the IPv6 settings on the target machine and you should see that it is…
A DDI solution is necessary to run a successful business. This is true because companies constantly broaden their networks by acquiring new IP addresses, whether as a result of market domination or mergers and acquisitions. DNS and DHCP services are managed using an IPAM-integrated DDI system. In its shortened form, it refers to the fusion…
Introduction The use of VPNs is a need for maintaining online anonymity, but having to keep your devices connected and disconnected can be annoying. An easier method exists. Your entire wireless network can be secured by joining your router to a VPN if you wish to hide your traffic from governments, internet service providers (ISPs),…
Introduction In recent years, mobile working has become a convenient way of getting on with some work while travelling or away on business in hotels. With the recent COVID-19 pandemic, a lot more people have found themselves working from home and requiring internet access to their offices. Pretty much everything is done on the internet…
Is buffering interrupting your Netflix binge-watching? Are your office workers ready to revolt over turtle-speed connectivity? Home or office, you might want to look into a mesh network. It could be the answer to fixing your WiFi woes. What is a mesh network? Whole home mesh networks have a central hub with separate nodes placed…
Have you recently upgraded your machine to Windows 10 Fall Creators Edition (1709) and can now no longer access your network drives or home NAS drives? Well, we have just run into this issue where after installing the 1709 update, we could not access our (slightly old) WD MyBook Live network attached storage device. When…
If you are using a QNAP network storage device, you may be using the funky Apple-like interface to create shared folders and allocate security permissions etc… However, if you would like to have the QNAP as pure storage and have Windows control your security options, then you can do this after a few small changes…
