MAC address filtering sounds like home network security, but it’s easy to bypass and mostly creates more hassle for you.

A MAC address may be the address of your Mac, but they’re not interchangeable. MAC stands for Media (or Medium) Access Control, a geeky term for a part of network communications between the actual ...

A router provides Internet connectivity to your local network while affording some protection for your network at the same time. The modem that you use to connect your office to the Internet has a ...

Media Access Control Address aka MAC Address plays a vital role to connect to the internet. To use the internet, you must have a network card and every network card has one unique MAC Address. You may ...

German authorities have asked the public for help in surfacing more details and potentially identifying the owner of a MAC address known to have been used by a bomber in late 2017. A media access ...

A MAC address is a pretty important piece of information. It stands for Media Access Control address, and it also helps identify your machine on a local network. Every device that can connect to the ...

I got an ASA 5505 firewall at a great price to use as a router at home and also to get some hands on with Cisco gear. First thing I did was change the WAN-interface MAC address to be able to pass my ...

Apple has published a document detailing the best settings to use on your router and highlighting some of the security weaknesses you might encounter if you had the wrong settings. Luckily most ...

[first part rant mode]<br>I have Verizon DSL. I have had it for a long time now. At least 5 years. During that time, I hooked up as many PC's as I needed online at the time. Mostly now, it is just two ...