Category: Networking

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About the 802.11 Wireless Network Standards

March 20, 2009 | No Comments

I have written many posts regarding wireless networks on Technically Easy. Some of the most popular posts deal with resetting and securing a wireless network. Wireless technology has hit the mainstream over the last few years, especially with more people buying laptops and becoming more mobile. Obviously, security is a major concern for most, so [...]

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How to Reset the Linksys WRT54GL Wireless-G Router

February 20, 2009 | 11 Comments

The most popular posts on Technically Easy involve wireless routers. The two that seem to generate the most attention are the posts explaining how to reset a particular wireless router. There may be times when you may need to reset your wireless router, but keep in mind that doing so will erase any security settings [...]

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Securing the Linksys WRT54GL Wireless-G Router

February 6, 2009 | 23 Comments

Two of the most popular posts on Technically Easy has to do with securing the Linksys WRT54G and D-Link DI-524 wireless routers. With many people using wireless routers at home, it becomes more important to secure the connection to the router form a computer. When I turn on my laptop at home, I can see [...]

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Connect to Your Network Without Rebooting

January 16, 2009 | 2 Comments

I have had an issue recently when connecting to my wireless network without rebooting. The issue came about when I had dropped my wireless connection from my laptop, but when the router had reinitialized, Windows wouldn’t connect to the network. There could be many times where you could lose your connection, and can’t reconnect to [...]

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Router Settings to Secure a Wireless Network

December 17, 2008 | 4 Comments

Two of the most popular posts on Technically Easy has to do with securing two different wireless routers: the Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G router and the D-link DI-524 Wireless router. At this time I only have those two guides available on securing wireless routers. For those with other wireless routers, I decided to outline some of [...]

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What Firefox Add-ons Do You Use?

December 5, 2008 | 19 Comments

I don’t write many posts about Firefox, mainly because there are many posts written on other blogs that do. In my post titled Examples of Colour Management I provide examples of how colour management affects the displaying of images. For those examples I used the Firefox web browser. Also within that post I talked about [...]

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What are Hubs and Switches?

November 12, 2008 | 7 Comments

I have written several posts in the past about connecting multiple computers to the Internet. In those posts I usually talk about connecting a router to your modem, and then your computers to the router. Since many routers also include a hardware firewall, this has the added benefit of securing your local network, while allowing [...]

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Using Mozy for my Online Backups

June 20, 2008 | 1 Comment

Recently I wrote a post titled My Introduction to Online Backups where I discussed two of the more popular online backup services. The two I discussed were Carbonite and Mozy. I decided to choose Mozy as my online backup service mainly because of its ability to backup data from an external hard drive. Since all [...]

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