DHCP is fine, unless you're looking to perform advanced networking tasks. Here's how to set a Static IP address (or DHCP reservation) for any device on your network. Our team tests, rates, and reviews ...

Before connecting a printer to a local area network, to prevent problems from occurring down the line, businesses should make sure that their networking, hardware and software setups will allow the ...

Need to know the IP address of your router, as assigned by your ISP, or the IP of your computer, as assigned by your router? These numbers are easy to find when you know where to look. Our team tests, ...

Rather than layering security onto networks, the networks themselves and carefully managed authorization policies can hinder attacks, but at an administrative cost. Why is it that over 90% of ...

Many a time IT admin needs to set up multiple IP addresses to the same network adapter. Situations such as hosting multiple SSL sites can speed up traffic exchanges, which can bypass the gateway in ...

Knowing your IP address can help protect your home network and data from prying eyes. Here's how to find it. Trey Paul was a CNET senior editor covering broadband. His 20+ years of experience as a ...

In an upcoming blog I expect to write about configuring a home router, which requires logging on to it. This, in turn, requires knowing the IP address of the router. Non-techies typically don’t know ...

I have a user who's machine is not pingable on our network, using computer hostname or associated IP. However, in troubleshooting this, I see that the IP the machine actually has does not resolve to ...

The Internet is a basic human right, and its lack can disrupt your daily life. A 169 IP address error can stop your computer from connecting to the Internet. However ...

Either I'm missing something in your description, or you are very wrong. We have a number of mobile devices that all use specific, static publics, and they pull them with ppp (using VZW). Click to ...