Category: Networking

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My Introduction to Online Backups

Published on: June 11, 2008 and has 2 Comments

Recently I have begun to think more about my data, and how it should be backed up. Currently I back it up to an external 250GB Western Digital hard drive, and also to multiple Taiyo Yuden DVD+R discs. One copy of the DVDs are stored offsite for disaster recovery reasons. I wanted to include another [...]

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Default User ID and Password for Various Routers

Published on: May 9, 2008 and has 2 Comments

Remembering my WRT54G default password and user ID can be difficult if I ever needed to reset my router. I have received a few e-mails regarding the default user ID and password for different routers. Most people that ask for this information usually have reset their router back to the factory default, but can’t seem [...]

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How to Get the IP Address of Your Router

Published on: April 23, 2008 and has 9 Comments

I have written various posts about connecting your computer to the Internet, including how to connect using two different routers (Linksys’s WRT54G Wireless-G router and D-Link’s DI-524 wireless router), as well as various configurations.

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How to Reset the D-Link DI-524 Wireless Router

Published on: February 1, 2008 and has 62 Comments

Some time ago I wrote a post titled Securing D-Link DI-524 Wireless Router. In that post I outlined the steps needed to secure that particular wireless router. More recently I wrote another post title How to Reset the Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Router and decided to write a similar post on reseting the DI-524 router.

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How to Reset the Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Router

Published on: January 23, 2008 and has 254 Comments

One of the most popular pages on Technically Easy is the post titled Securing Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Router. In that post I outlined the steps needed to secure these particular wireless broadband routers to maintain your wireless network security. The one problem I didn’t mention is how to reset the router back to the factory [...]

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DNS Issue when Accessing a Web Page

Published on: January 11, 2008 and has 2 Comments

I recently experienced a problem that looked like a DNS error. The error appeared in the web browser after trying to load a Web page. I have never seen the error message before, but after reading the message it was easy to determine it had to do with domain name servers. After doing some testing, [...]

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Types of Broadband Internet Access

Published on: January 9, 2008 and has 3 Comments

I remember when I first connected to the Internet I used a 56Kbps modem over the phone line. Back then, that was considered fast as many users were using 14.4Kbps or 288Kbps modems. Since then, however, the Internet has evolved and so has the connection methods. In this post I explain broadband, and the various [...]

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Different Methods of Connecting Multiple Computers to One Internet Connection

Published on: November 2, 2007 and has 2 Comments

One of my most popular posts is titled Connecting Multiple Computers to Broadband which explains how to connect a router to your modem to allow many computers to connect to your Internet connection. The post explained the simplest method of connection multiple computers, but there are other ways to connect multiple computers. I will explain [...]

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