Sharing a printer across a local network offers several benefits for small businesses, most notably increased functionality, effective cost distribution and convenience. Most small businesses put ...

Before connecting a printer to a local area network, to prevent problems from occurring down the line, businesses should make sure that their networking, hardware and software setups will allow the ...

Your IP address is your device's digital identity on a network. You have a private (local) IP address that relates to the network in your home, or place of work, for things like your desktop, ...

Knowing your IP address can help protect your home network and data from prying eyes. Here's how to find it. Trey Paul was a CNET senior editor covering broadband. His 20+ years of experience as a ...

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 ...