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How to Secure the D-Link WBR-1310 Wireless G Router

D-Link-WBR-1310 Wireless G Router

This article will explain how to secure the D-link WBR-1310 Wireless G router. It is important, regardless of which wireless router you use, to secure the router to ensure that unauthorized individuals can’t access your Internet connection, and local network. To prevent someone from accessing your wireless router, it is important to properly secure it. [...]

Router Configuration Pages Not Displayed Fully in Web Browser

BEFSX41 Router

You may run into an issue where your router’s configuration pages may not display properly, or fully, in your web browser. I have recently seen this issue with a wired router after connecting the router from one computer to another. I reset the router a few times, but the configuration pages in the browser window [...]

Is Your Laptop LCD Becoming Dark?

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I recently had an issue with my wife’s laptop’s LCD slowly becoming dark. It started with the left side slowly getting darker, and soon the darkness would spread across half the screen. It became so bad that it was almost unreadable. This issue occurred regardless of whether the laptop was connected to an AC power [...]

Internet Connection Slow in Windows 7

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I like tinkering with my operating systems. I change many settings from their defaults, and sometimes the settings improve things, while other times it may break something. After I recently began exploring Windows 7, I began tinkering with some connection settings to see what they do. Unfortunately, I had changed several settings and then realized [...]

Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Router Not Connecting to Internet

Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Router

Recently, my Linksys WRT54G wireless router could not connect to the Internet. The odd thing about this was that just the day before I didn’t have any problems. I have two computers and a Wii connected to the router. Once computer is a desktop that is hard-wired into the WRT54G with a network cable. I [...]

Couldn’t Print to a Local Printer

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I recently had an issue where I couldn’t print to a local printer. The printer was connected directly to a laptop, and Windows had no trouble identifying the printer, but when the job was sent to, it wouldn’t print. While I usually like to post more challenging problems, this one turned out to be rather [...]

Delayed Write Failure With External Hard Drive

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I had recently bought myself a new external hard drive because I had out grown my 250GB western digital drive. My new drive is the 2TB Western Digital My Book. My new drive has three methods of connecting to the computer: USB 2.0, Firewire, or eSATA. Since I don’t have an eSATA connection, I used [...]

Finding Your D-Link DI-524 Revision

D-Link DI-524 Wireless-G Router

I recently had an issue with one of my tutorial posts that outlines how to secure a D-Link DI-524 wireless G router. The issue was that the steps I provided didn’t exactly match the options that were available on some DI-524 routers. After a few readers reported this issue, I decided I should look into [...]