Download The SMB’s Guide to Wireless Networking — it’s free with registration. Technology changes so quickly that it’s often hard to keep up or stay current. But here’s one small business networking ...

MAC address stands for media access control address. It is basically a unique identifier given to a network interface controller for use as a network address in communications within a network sector.

When you think about networking, IP addresses are probably the first things that come to mind. But there’s another type of network address called a MAC address that actually forms the foundation upon ...

You might think that connecting anonymously to a public Wi-Fi network doesn’t reveal much about you. You might be using a VPN (virtual private network) to protect everything you do. Even if you aren’t ...

Apple tends to keep most of its convenient features, like AirDrop, locked to its own hardware, but this is also what allows its products to offer some of the best security features in the space.

Can you get a Web browser’s media access control (MAC) address from a Web server? It would probably be impractical to send an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) request. Can you get a Web browser’s ...

IP reservation is the process of assigning a specific IP address to a device, such as a computer, so it ... Continue Reading ...

A Media Access Control (MAC) address, sometimes referred to as a hardware or physical address, is a unique, 12-character alphanumeric attribute that is used to identify individual electronic devices ...

Both your MacBook's wireless and Ethernet network interfaces have 12-digit MAC addresses that help identify the computer's networking hardware on your network. These addresses can be handy for network ...

Internet networking involves a lot of alchemy, and I confess to occasionally dropping an eye of newt (or an IP of newt) into a boiling pot to fix problems on my local network. There’s a particular ...