Knowing your IP address can help protect your home network and data from prying eyes. Here's how to find it. Trey Paul was a CNET senior editor covering broadband. His 20+ years of experience as a ...

An IP address is a way for every device on a network to be seen. Without IP addresses, it would be impossible for those devices to be located. Think of your computer's IP address like your house's ...

If you've ever tinkered with your network settings before, then chances are you've come across the term "default gateway" multiple times in the past. This value is usually required when you want to ...

I often have to find the IP address of a machine I'm working on (or need to work on). Sometimes, I need to unblock an IP address of a machine on my network, so the machine can reach a network share ...

No more. Thanks to a hard push downwards into the consumer market, makers of networked home-security cameras now offer more, and easier, options for watching your house while you're away. For a ...

One small open-source tool brought clarity to my entire home network.

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More and more security devices being designed to communicate over local area networks (LAN) and the Internet. In smaller installations the security dealer is going to probably be responsible for ...

I've heard it rumored that some IP addresses are "faster" than others which is why some people prefer say 10.0.1.xxx over say 192.168.7.xxx. Is there any truth to these rumors? I use 207.202.191.xxx ...