Tired of being the only wireless network in your apartment building without a clever name like “Wu-tang LAN” or “Bill Wi the Science Fi”? Or maybe you want to make your network password more secure so ...

Every device that connects to the internet gets an IP address, even the device that gives us our home internet connection – our router. You probably won’t need to use your router’s IP address everyday ...

Networks, and the internet, don't identify computers (of any size, even your smartphone) by the name you give them. Computers prefer numbers, and the numbers they use as identifiers are called IP ...

Ben Khalesi covers the intersection of artificial intelligence and everyday tech at Android Police. With a background in AI and data science, he enjoys making technical topics approachable for those ...

While individuals commonly refer to websites like Google by name, computers rely on a series of numbers to represent these domains. When you input “google.com,” a Domain Name Service (DNS) translates ...

An IP address is a long string of numbers or hexadecimals (numbers and letters) used to identify your business computer when you're online. In addition to your computer's IP address, there is also a ...

An IP or Internet Protocol address is a unique string of values that makes your device visible on the Internet or Local Area Network (LAN). If you know your Router’s IP address, you can change its ...

A41202813 asked the Answer Line forum if his router is ready for the new world of IPv6 Internet addressing. The Internet has been tracking devices with 32-bit IPv4 numbers for a very long time. But ...

IPv6 offers several ways that aren’t possible in IPv4 to assign IP addresses, and DNS set-up has differences as well. As IP technology has matured, the range of devices that the internet protocol ...