Tighten your seat belts. Data transfer is going into overdrive as the ubiquitous Universal Serial Bus, better known as USB, prepares to make a tenfold jump in speed.
That means the vast sea of USB devices — from HD camcorders to hard drives and music players — will be able to transfer music, video, photos and [...]

Mika questioned: I bought a laptop and am trying to make it so that I can share files between the desktop and the laptop, and also print from the laptop directly to the printer that’s connected to the desktop.
I had a working LAN already with the printer sharing working fine.
Here is the setup:
A cable modem, [...]

Stylus Happenstance questioned: I have an older laptop running Windows 98, a Linksys wireless PC card and a D-Link wireless router. The card works with my laptop just fine, and even connects to the internet very easily, but only if the router is in its default unencrypted state. I recently set the router [...]

trc questioned: I’ve recently recieved a new laptop from work. I work from home sometimes and need to connect to the internet. My laptop shows that I’m connected to the internet, but I can’t get any pages to download. I’ve disabled the firewalls on the computers, but to no avail. My [...]

Mark T questioned: I have 2 wireless laptops and 1 desk top computer. The printer is wired to the desk top computer. I am trying to link the wireless laptops so they can access the printer. All three computers are on the same router.

Rick R questioned: I had two computers both connected to a wireless router. Yesterday I connected a third computer to the network and, although the connection goes through for this new computer, one of the original computers now says Limited or no connectivity and cannot connect to the Internet. Is it possible that the new [...]

Manxman questioned: The computer was the primary member of a home network of 3 computers in total and had the printers and scanner connected to it.
It was disconnected and Windows XP re installed, now I need to place it back into the network as the primary computer.
The basic instructions for setting up a network are [...]

Allen questioned: Can my computer be monitored by just connecting to a network?
Like just a wifi network, whether it be at the airport, in school, or any hotspot. Is it possible for anyone to monitor your computer or the sites you visited ?

madmatt2024 questioned: I use a wireless card to connect my desktop to the internet. I Also want to connect my ps2 in the same room to the internet. The router is to far away for it to be practical running a lan cable from it to the ps2. I am currently able to get one [...]

djdex222 questioned: We have a netgear wireless router mr814vtw which links to a ntl modem and pc. Upstairs we have a fujitsu laptop which has an inbuilt wireless modem. We have connected this via an ethernet cable to the xbox 360. We followed the advice of some web forums in setting ip numbers but the [...]