What is DSL and how can it benefit my home or small business?
DSL or xDSL is a group of technologies that provide digital data transfer over the telephone network. DSL technology was originally begun as a part of the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN). The typical transfer speeds of DSL services range from 128 kilobits per second to 24,000 kbit/s. More ...
Network Cabling For Beginners
Cabling is the foundation of your network, it is the medium that connects all your computers and servers together and is probably one of the most important and often overlooked items in business networks. More ...
Networking Foundation Topic - Routing
For traffic to flow between networks, the traffic has to be routed, thus routing and routers is a key networking topic. This article discusses how routing occurs. More ...
How to Study For and Pass the CompTIA Network+ Exam
CompTIA certification is an advantage because it provides proof to employers that you have the competence required to perform the job. It can help you acquire employment in fact many employers require CompTIA certification. More ...
Create a Peer-to-peer Network
Many small to medium sized organizations are wrestling with Windows server and paying excessive licensing fees when they don't need to. Sure, a server provides centralized security administration, but is it really more efficient? More ...
Wireless Networking Your PC
Here in one place is everything you need to know about wireless networking your PC. More ...
Fiber Optic Cabling For Beginners
Traditionally, twisted pair copper cable has been the most common form of network cabling. As technology continues to advance however, fiber optic cable is quickly becoming the standard in network cabling. More ...
What is an Ethernet Crossover Cable?
When connecting two computers together without a switch or router in between you need a special cable, called a crossover cable, that has the transmit wire pair swapped with the receive wire pair. More ...
What is IPv6 Anycast Routing?
Anycast looks like a unicast - one unique host sending to another, the difference being that the target address actually exists in multiple places. When the given host sends a packet to this address it will follow the shortest route as defined by the routing protocols. More ...
NRZ, NRZI, Manchester Encoding, What Does it Mean?
NRZ (Non-Return-to-Zero), NRZI (Non-Return-to-Zero Inverted), and Manchester Encoding are terms for the shapes and voltage levels of digital electronic signals. This article also explains Manchester decoding. More ...
Bluetooth Basics - Bluetooth Technology Tutorial
You see advertisements for Bluetooth enabled cell phones, PDAs, and laptops, and all sorts of different devices taking advantage of this wireless standard. But, what is it? Bluetooth technology is nothing new, but in many respects it still seems to be more of a buzz word rather than a well understood, commonly accepted technology. More ...
What is Port Forwarding?
Port forwarding redirects a communication request from one address and port number connection to another while the packets are traversing a network gateway. This technique is used to hide hosts residing on an internal network from hosts on external networks. More ...
What is DNS?
Have you ever wondered what happens when you enter, or click on, a web address in your browser? How does your computer connect to the Web site you requested? Part of what makes that happen is the Internet's Domain Name Service (DNS). More ...
