The media access control address or mac address of a device is assigned to its network adapter to identify this device during network communication. Just like internet protocol address or IP address, mac address is also used to uniquely identify your device across the network. The major difference between mac address and an IP address ... Read more
IP address or Internet Protocol Address is some numerical digits that are used to uniquely identify a device’s name and its location. IP addresses are assigned to each and every device that is connected to the network whether it is a personal computer or a printer or a scanner etc. Many times you need to ... Read more
Many times, it happens that you find it difficult to remember your default Wi-Fi network name and password, which comes with your router when you purchase it. Or it may be the case that the password that you have set earlier or the one that is your default password gets leaked and hence people are ... Read more
The ping command is used to test the availability of a remote or destination machine on a network. In this tutorial, I'll show you it's various uses on Windows operating systems. All the commands can be run on command prompt or PowerShell. I have tested the tutorial on Windows 10, however, it should run on ... Read more
In Windows 10, managing a wireless network is quite easy. Microsoft has made sure that their flagship product is as user-friendly as possible. They have life easier by incorporating the Wi-Fi option in Network and Security part of the Settings app. However, there are few steps that need to be taken for connecting to a ... Read more
Whenever you connect to a Wi-Fi network, the operating system adds a network profile for the connection whilst saving the name of the network also known as the SSID, along with the network’s security details which include the relevant encryption or password. As a result of this action, your PC will automatically connect to the ... Read more
Whenever you connect your PC to a new Wi-Fi network, you enter the relevant credentials like a password. Once the connection has been established, Windows 10 saves that network profile along with its credentials for you. Therefore you don’t have to enter the same details again and again for the same Wi-Fi network. This lets ... Read more
By default Windows computers participate in file-sharing of local networks - it recognizes other devices in that network such as other computers and printers and shares all data in the folders set to do so. If you want to turn this feature off at all or partly you can do so through the Control Panel. ... Read more
If for some reason, you have a wireless connection stuck in your system's selection that doesn't go away, it's not that easy to figure out how to do so: To remove such an entry, - left-click on the connections icon and on Open Network and Sharing Center - in the left pane, click on Manage ... Read more
Successfully using the EnableStatic method for example in powershell always gives the Returnvalue 0. If that is not the case, something will most likely have gone wrong. If you are returned the value 2147786788, this is a sign for a write lock of some sort, meaning you have to look for running processes that are ... Read more
