Networking Forum

hey there. What does one call the network segment where you hold your sensitive databases and servers? Some ppl call it a DMZ cause its protected by a firewall, but I believe this is wrong cause a DMZ is where you put your webservers, mail servers etc. So what does …

Here goes: I recently moved in, and my housemates are using ADSL home router. When the cables were plugged into their laptops, it works fine, but when I plugged the cable into my Desktop PC, packets received were 0, even though I already configured it as 'Assigned by DHCP'. When …

hi Is there any way to make all incoming/outgoing traffic go through my isp proxy - hence protect my pc's ip address. .. thinking really of ways using router configuration OR some dns utility! I am using a speedTouch 510 router on windows xp and apache server. When i surf …

last night i run a clean install of windows xp proffesinal on my LG LW752 Express. after doing this i cannont connect to my wireless router. i would guess i have have lost the drivers needed because whe ni check in the device manager it says these driver have not …

ok everything was fine last week when I was transfering files between computers. but today I tried to transfer some pictures between them and could not get to any computers on my network. I am running win 2000 pro on 3 computers and 2 have xp pro for a total …

Hi, Ive had issues with this every time I get a new router so this could be a general problem. I'm using 3 Desktops Wired and 1 Laptop Wireless Desktop PC1, PC2 -Windows XP Pro, Netgear NIC Desktop PC3 -Windows XP Home, MB Network Adapter Laptop Lt1 -Windows XP Home, …

Not sure what is going on. I have 2 PC's one (host) is connected to Fios via Ethernet which has a Vonage modem in between...the other (client) is connected via WiFi...strangely this routes through the Vonage modem by default. Anyway, the Belkin USB WiFi adapter installed on the second computer …

I am going upgrade my present Tiscali Dial up to TalkTalk free broadband and would like to use my own wireless router but TalkTalk tell me they cannot guarantee the connection unless I use their own supplied wireless router or modem I think thats ridiculous whats your thoughts Thank you …

i have a windows xp home computer and i can send alot of packets but recieve maybe 2 in an hour i canot conect to the internet i hasave gone to cmd and renewed and released my ip the only way i can conect is through i direct link IE.. …

Hello All, I am student of university of Colombo School of Computing following Computer Science degree. Now I am in my 4th year.In 4th year we have to do a research based project. SO I am now in a process of finding a topic for my project. I am interested …

Hello all, I am new here and trying to find some answers to some basic networking questions. As the described in the title that is the problem that I am having. I am attempting the connection as follows: cable modem to Linksys wireless N router to a SmartLink ESK-108 8 …

Hi please help. I use to be on ADSL internet. Changed to Cable internet and loving the speed. I got a Motorola Sb5101 Surfboard Modem(Cable) and was using a DLink DSL G604T Router. I wanna save a bit of money and want to trying hooking both devices up so I …

Hi friends.... I would like you to help me in configuring my netwrk in a small office environmnet.... We rae going to open a new branch of our office which is abt 6-7 kns from my present office.....let me come to the issue... We have purchased a linksys ADSL2+gateway for …

Hello Collective Wisdom, I'm new here, and hoping people might have some ideas for me. My co-op building has a home network spread over 3 floors + basement, supporting at 1/2 dozen (+) computers. I'm the default IT person, computer-literate but not a lot of hands-on experience with networking. ISP …

I am a high school student looking for serous help. I need a way to bypass the school internet filter. I found various anonymizers and proxys that work exept I can only use them one day beacuse the next day they will be blocked.:sad: This is a seroius problem as …

Hello Everyone, It's been awhile since I've found my way to daniweb. I've missed the place. But now I have come back for a little bit of help myself. I'm helping out a local private school with there network. Unfortunately their budget doesn't fit the needs of a nice hardware …

Hi all, I just joined the site today and hoping to get some quick answers if possible! I'm putting in a small network for my company and just want to run through the configuration to see if it's possible. Any advice, suggestions or tips are greatly appreciated. The office will …

Hello, I have a few questions about some networking i wanna do. 1. I think i know the answer to this but just to be sure is there a such thing as Offline remote networking? IE, can i network people in various places, particularly to a common server without the …

I have a small network with two pc's, a switch and a dsl-router-modem that provides an ethernet output. I take the e-net output from the dsl-router-modem and, going thru the switch, I supply the two pc's and that part works fine. An "ipconfig" call shows that the dsl-router-modem is the …

Hello, i recently formatted my HDD and then reinstalled [URL="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/forums/index.cfm?action=showthread&threadid=297264&forumid=18#"]Xp[/URL]. Theres been no serious problems, except i cant seem to run a [URL="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/forums/index.cfm?action=showthread&threadid=297264&forumid=18#"]internet[/URL] connection on it. I have a belkin 54g, and thats all plugged in via ethernet, and that allows the two other pcs in the house to connect …

Hello everyone. I'm a newbie here (obviously I guess) and I am attempting to rebuild (or build) my wireless network. A few months back, I purchased a Linksys router because I wanted to be able to play my PS2 online and have someone surf the net @ the same time. …

I am running SBS 2003 on a Dell Power Edge sc440. I want to use the machine to promote music groups and needed a sound card. I installed XP on my second drive to accommodate the sound card. However, I can't get my network adapter to work from the XP …

Hi, I searched around for a while and all of the issues involving this statement are not my problem. Basically I have a working, though recently run, cat 5e cable outlet to my room. It works perfectly with the laptop I am typing on at the moment, so the wall …

I have a D-Link wireless router (In Basement), a wireless nic in the PC (My room). Internet works fine. Then I tried to set up a LAN with my Wired D-Link router (In my Room) to connect my two PC's together. Nothing works! When I enable my LAN connection my …

I'm trying to access my roommate's wireless connection (she uses a Dell laptop and a Netgear? router) but her password is not allowing my Mac laptop to access the network. I've tried entering the regular password in the WEP Password field, and also the converted password into the long 128-bit …

We are starting a new branch of our office about 5 kms from our present office.We have to activate wireless connectivity at the new office.We already have an existing wireless coonectivity in our present office. We have purchased an adsl2 + gateway.The telephone lines would be enabled in the new …

Hi All, I have a new (3 weeks) NetGear WGR614 v4 G wireless network running on two Windows 98 machines. I can access the net with no problems from both machines, but the machine with the card in it can not access my printer. And now I can not access …

I'm a newbie/novice here who recently purchased a Linksys WRT54G Wireless Broadband router (though I'm currently using the non-wireless access via cable ports). My intention is to browse the web on my PC while viewing baseball on MLB.TV on my non-wireless laptop. I can do both individually with the cable …

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I have a wireless network on a Netgear router and a wireless router. I want to connect my XDA mini S to the network via the WiFi but I need to enter a network key on the phone. However the problem is that I do not know how to check …

I'm at a complete loss at what to try next. My computer was working fine last week. It's a Asus K8N Motherboard with an AMD64FX. I've been connecting to the internet fine with no trouble, even with TrendMicro Firewall running (I use PCCillian Internet Security 2007). I shutdown my computer …

Hi All, This was the closest place i could find to post my question and i apologise in advance if there is a better place to post it. My problem is that since changing our ISP nobody on our network can view our website ([URL="http://www.marymead.org.au"]www.marymead.org.au[/URL]). Basically what happens is every …

I can access my website with my external static ip address. Anyone outside my wifi cant access my website. I assume this is a router problem? How do I allow other computers to allow access to my server?

So I've recently become employed at an orginization who does not have their computers networked together. I was shocked, at first, but then they explained that hard wiring a network in this building would be expensive. Naturally I suggested wireless, after all my cell phone (and everyone elses) works anywhere …

Hello all I have a Netgear DG834 which connects my home network to the internet. My current set up has 4 machines which all plug into the DG834, but I now want to add more machines. I have been advised to by a switch and plug everything into the new …

I have DSL, and was told that there is no speed loss when using a router for up to 4 pc connections. This seems to be confirmed when downloading from one site and surfing the net on my laptop, I do not notice any speed changes. So, on to my …

I have an old acer computer lying around It's got a AMD K6 300 in it with 64megs of ram and a 6.5 gig hard drive. My friend showed me this really cool game called HALO by microsoft. I wanted to know how to setup a game server either on …

Hi, I am trying to setup a dedicated game server for about 150000 players to start of with on the internet and then I hope that about 300000 players will start playing it. I have done some research and caluclations. But need to find some more information on it. I …

Just set up a newly formatted wife's PC on our home LAN (Westell Router) with XP Home (previously it was using XP Pro). Cant get access to my XP Pro PC on network with wife's XP Home system although I can readily access hers and send and move files between …

Hi Guys I am Paul and I am trying to copy the AD from my old w2k server (which will then be taken out of service) and to place it on my new WS2K3 server. I also wish to set the new server up as per the old one, ie …

Hello everyone, I am new to this site and the reason that brought me here was a problem that I am having. The problem: I carry service with cox cable modem at my house and recently I had switched to a static ip due to the I must have constant …

hello i am trying to connect my little sisters laptop up with a belkin g router. my mothers main computer pooped out so she is currently borrowing one of mine. i just took the lan cord out of her desktop computer and plugged it into my laptop which is directly …

Ok, I have asked this problem to every one that I work with and have come across that works in the tech industry. No one can seem to figure it out. For about the past 3 years my computer NIC has had to be set at 10Mb half duplex to …

Network is give problems, l'm using debian software to run my server and l have firewall on server. And now every 30 minute internet will stop working l need to restart server before it work. Is firewall give that hell. l need help to disable firewall. Someone should me to …

My church has two buildings with 6 PCs in building 1 and 3 PCs in building 2. In building 1 we have a Linksys BEFSR81 10/100 8 port router. I ran about 240 feet of cat-5 cable to building 2 and have an old Linksys 10/ hub. When they are …

Earlier this week a DDoS attack hit my internet connection right after an argument with some people on which OS is better for servers. The attack lasted about 3 days before I could finally get the IP changed as when our router was connected to the cable modem it would …

I have my old work laptop that they let me keep and it still boots to logging in to the work network. That's works fine when I enter the old password and can access everything on the laptop. What I'd like to do is remove the work network and just …

I have my old work laptop that they let me keep and it still boots to logging in to the work network. That's works fine when I enter the old password and can access everything on the laptop. What I'd like to do is remove the work network and just …

if you set up 2 virtual machines 1 windows server 2003 and 1 windows xp pro can i run them both at the same time and set up a domain on server 2003 and connect to the domain on xp on vmware

How much of Cisco handware is in the IT infrastructure worldwide?