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How To Find Your Default Gateway Address

Published: June 11, 2018, 7:59 p.m. in Router, How-to, Gateway Address by Asif Mumtaz

When your home or office network is giving you headaches, you are as if without the digital train. You can’t digitally go anywhere and no information can enter your network. You are a caveman living with all the technology that can’t connect to its brain in the ‘cloud’. It means …

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How to Hide Your Public IP Address

Published: May 27, 2018, 12:57 p.m. in How-to, Broadband Connection, Virtual Private Network (VPN), IP address, Security by Serina Rajagukguk

If you're reading this, it's 100% guaranteed that you have an IP address. How can I be so sure? Well, because without one, you won't be able to surf the internet at all. Once you connect to the internet, your ISP (Internet Service Provider) assigns a special ID to you. …

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Why Is My Internet So Slow – and How to Fix It

Published: May 17, 2018, 2:24 p.m. in How-to, Speed, Broadband Connection, Troubleshooting, Diagnostics by Serina Rajagukguk

Who would have thought that slow internet would become one of the biggest stress triggers in the 21st century?  It's bad enough that you're behind with your deadlines, and now the stupid internet starts slowing down on you? (Hashtag Hulk smash)  There, there.  Unfortunately for you, there are many possible causes of your slow internet problem. So you may need to postpone those deadlines a bit further (don't shoot the messenger). Below, we have a list of things that commonly cause poor internet connection. It could be your …

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How to Use Your Smartphone as a WiFi Hotspot

Published: May 7, 2018, 7:37 a.m. in How-to, WiFi / Wi-Fi, Mobile data, Hotspot by Serina Rajagukguk

Have you ever suffered from the slow-WiFi-itis? We bet you have: Stranded in unknown territory and desperately need an internet connection to work on your laptop, you make do with a slow, free WiFi. The frustration that arises in this situation is what we call "the slow-WiFi-itis." Yes, we invented …

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What Is a Good Internet Speed? How to Test It?

Published: April 30, 2018, 7:49 a.m. in How-to, WiFi / Wi-Fi, Broadband Connection, Internet Speed by Serina Rajagukguk

"Why wouldn't you want to marry Bill Gates? I bet he has fast internet." That's a quote from The Big Bang Theory, aka the geekiest TV show in the entire universe. In an era where everything is done online, high-speed internet is the new holy grail. As a matter of …

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How to perform the 30 30 30 Hard reset for routers and modems

Published: April 9, 2018, 5:08 p.m. in Router, How-to, Tutorial by Jonathan

All broadband routers and modems that are used in homes and offices come equipped with a reset button. This button is often quite hidden, usually inside a hole on the backside of the router, to prevent pressing it by mistake. The function of the reset switch is to return the …

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