Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category

Guide to Choosing Network Router

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

Derek Rogers asked: When you are getting ready to pick a network router, you may feel as though one is very much like the other. After all, as long as you can connect the household computers to it, and as long as everything mostly comes up, it's all fine, right?The ...

How Do I Set Up My Wireless Network at Home?

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

Pinky Mcbanon asked: Wireless home networks are becoming more and more popular these day. The ease of installation and the practicality of being able to surf the net anywhere in the house makes wireless home networks very attractive to internet users. Setting up a wireless home network is quite easy ...

Understandings Network Management and Network Monitoring

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Groshan Fabiola asked: Network management may mean different things to different people. To some network management may be a solitary network consultant monitoring network activity with an outdated protocol analyzer, to others network management may be about distributed database, high-end workstations generating and traffic. Speaking generally, network management is a ...

Network Routers: How do They Work?

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Derek Rogers asked: When you are in a situation where you need to make sure that several computers are networked together and then to still be able to communicate with the outside world, you will find that of course you turn to a router for help. Routers have become such ...

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Don R. Crawley asked: Copyright (c) 2008 Don R. CrawleyA site-to-site virtual private network (VPN) allows you to maintain a secure "always-on" connection between two physically separate sites using an existing non-secure network such as the public Internet. Traffic between the two sites is transmitted over an encrypted tunnel to ...

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Don R. Crawley asked: Copyright (c) 2008 Don R. CrawleyPrior to the introduction of SSH in the Cisco IOS, the only remote login protocol was Telnet. Although quite functional, Telnet is a non-secure protocol in which the entire session, including authentication, is in clear text and thus subject to snooping.SSH ...

Configuring Your Own Adsl Router

Friday, August 1st, 2008

George Chao asked: Configuring an ASDL router with a local area network is no longer the exclusive domain of computer savvy network administrators and technicians. Routers are becoming increasingly easier to set up according to anyone's specific needs. Many of these network devices offer an online feature that allows the ...

Networking Interview Questions

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

B. Bashir asked: Computer Networking Interview QuestionsHere are the basic interview questions for the network administrators, system administrators and IT manager posts. These questions provide the basic information about the network communication technology, network topologies, network troubleshooting techniques, network devices and the basic overview of the LAN/WAN communication model.What is ...

What to Know Before Upgrading Your Cisco Router

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Sterling Christian asked: Expanding the capacity of any high bandwidth network is always an involved process. The actual cost of upgrade hardware and the task of physically installing RAM memory into your Cisco routers' expansion slots is simple enough, but most high-capacity data networks serve production environments which demand fault-tolerance ...

Configure Nat Using Port Address Translation on a Cisco Router

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Don R. Crawley asked: Copyright (c) 2008 Don R. CrawleyNetwork Address Translation, better known simply as NAT, allows an outside address to represent a single or many inside addresses. There are several forms of NAT, but one of the most common is called NAT overloading, Port Address Translation, or simply ...