Just ask any economist: When a commodity is in short supply, several things happen. The price goes up, rationing begins, and people start scrambling for substitutes. Globally unique Internet addresses ...

NAT, or network address translation, is a function embedded in even the simplest of SOHO routers. Simply put, NAT hides your device’s “real” address from the network by translating this address to a ...

Most routers come with some kind of administrative website that you access by typing their IP address into your favorite web browser and entering your login and password—which you changed from ...

Every computer connected to the Internet has a unique Internet Protocol (IP) address that identifies the device to other computers, allowing the user to browse the Web and access other online services ...

Network Address Translation, or NAT, is a process in which home or office internal computers can use the Internet in a private and secure manner. Home Firewalls use NAT almost exclusively as their ...