Wireless local area networks include a wireless access point that devices connect to in order to communicate with each other and access the Internet. Ad-hoc networks, on the other hand, lack a central ...

Transferring files from your laptop to a desktop PC is simple – usually. If you are visiting a customer's or vendor's site, the IT staff will usually help you connect to their network and transfer ...

Ethernet ports are usually just relegated to connecting computers to routers to facilitate an internet connection, but they're capable of much more than that.

I needed to get some files onto a laptop without an optical drive today, so I connected it to my iBook, turned on OSX's Internet Connection Sharing and FTP, put the CD in the iBook's drive, and copied ...

The sysadmin's guide to repurposing an RJ45 port ...

So, we have some testing labs and some equipment in those labs that can connect to a PC with a direct network connection - no router or switch, just a loopback cable to the device. Device is ...