If you are setting up to upgrade your wireless network to the new Wireless N that has flooded stores, don’t. Wireless N has not even been completed as a standard. I guess they just couldn’t wait to start raking in the bucks. Continue Reading →
The first thing I usually do on a tech support call is to check to see that the computer I’m working on doesn’t have spyware active on it. Many computer problems seemed to be caused by spyware and the world would be a better place without it.
When I run this sweep the people I’m working with usually ask me “What is spyware?” This is what I answer: Continue Reading →
To remain simple is to remain alive
Computers provide a very easy way to work your way into a complex nightmare of a network.
You buy one computer and then it all snowballs from there. Eventually you find yourself connecting your desktop to your laptop to your PDA to your cell phone to your TV to your microwave! And of course the only task you cannot get done is the one thing you are trying to do because the entire system is going up in flames! Continue Reading →
There are many things that interrupt a wireless signal, but there are some simple ways that you can increase your wireless connectivity. Below is a compiled list of the most common for Windows.
- Only have one preferred network in range at any given time. - If you are using the windows connection utility then I recommend that you set it up so that there is only one preferred network in range at any given time. Preferred networks are networks that your computer trusts. Unfortunately, windows has the tendency to randomly connect to preferred networks it discovers near by. This would be good except that often you are already connected and don’t need to connect to a different network. Essentially it can make for a turbulent connection because you bounce between wireless networks if there is more than one preferred network in range. So be careful to limit the number of preferred networks in range to one network at a time. Continue Reading →
“Because technology works for you, not the other way around.”