There are days when your connection breaks, not because the internet is down, but because your computer is confused. Wrong IP, no IP, stuck on an old network, or just refusing to pick up a new one.

In his early 20s, Apple's Steve Jobs became the face of the personal computer revolution, And in his early 20s, Mark Zuckerberg became the name most associated with the popularization of social ...

September 1, 2010: Apple’s new music-focused social network, Ping, ships as part of iTunes 10. Apple says the service will let users discover new music and more easily follow their favorite artists.

In previous articles we’ve built some useful servers. But this time let’s take a look at one of the most powerful network troubleshooting tools ever written: the mighty “ping” command. You may have ...

Apple audaciously seems to think the world actually needs another social network -- one that you even need special software to be part of, to boot. With the introduction Wednesday of 'Ping," a ...

Step-by-step methods to fix "Fortnite" lag, stuttering, and high ping in 2025 with network, hardware, and performance tweaks ...

From containers and VPNs to VLANs and firewalls, Linux networking has become the backbone of modern home labs and servers.

Ping was scheduled for unceremonious termination at the end of September, and now it’s definitely gone dark. Clicking on the Ping link in the iTunes sidebar now returns an error, if it even still ...

Last time, we pointed out that the usefulness of the ping and tracert commands has been severely limited by the fact that in order to protect from denial-of-service attacks, many systems now do not ...

Here in the Oregon HQ for macosxhints.com, we’ve got a few devices on our local network. There are the Macs, of course, and a networked Brother laser printer, the AirPort Base Station, and our (rarely ...