Im sure a lot of you have heard of port forwarding, most of you will have heard about it when you were trying to find out how to get your torrents to download faster! Well in this article im going to go through the basics of port forwarding, why we need to do it and [...]

Setting up your own web server is a great way to learn about web hosting and gives you total control over your website and how everything works on it. Whilst Windows XP is not an ideal hosting platform for a very high traffic site, it still has the functionality to allow you to host a [...]

DNS (Domain Name System) is the backbone of the internet, you may not know it yet but 99% of what you do online requires and uses DNS. DNS is the internets version of a phone book, but instead of resolving names to phone numbers it resolves names (Domain names) to ip addresses. What is an [...]

I will warn you now, you will find no useful information in this post, this post is just for me to rant, about Adobe Reader! Adobe Reader is one of those programs that most people need. Pdf has become a well known document format and currently a lot of documents/invoives/memos are in pdf format. Because [...]

Windows XP has a nice little feature that allows it to be a VPN server, this is for both the home and pro editions. The setup of this is nice and straightforward: Firstly, go to start > control panel > network connections. Click on ‘Create a new connection’ in the top left. You will be [...]

File sharing is a relatively painless process providing you know the relevant steps to take to set it up. Follow this brief guide and you’ll be file sharing between 2 systems in no time. Please note this guide will cover file sharing over a LAN, file sharing over the internet can be a dangerous practice [...]

Here is the scenario: You have a PC that is connected to your cable modem or wired router via an ethernet cable, the PC also has a wireless card of some sort in it. You also have a laptop with a wireless card but dont want to or cant afford to fork out for a [...]

There is nothing worse than a slow computer, especially when that computer used to be fast! I see it all too often, the one thing that people complain about the most with their computers is that there running slow. The fact of the matter is that after a while your machine starts to slow down [...]