In an upcoming blog I expect to write about configuring a home router, which requires logging on to it. This, in turn, requires knowing the IP address of the router. Non-techies typically don’t know ...

Your router's gateway address serves as an access point to a different part of the network, such as another router or the Internet. Many routers use a gateway system called DHCP that automatically ...

Your Linksys router uses a dynamic external IP address leased from your ISP. This dynamic address changes based on the time limits of the lease. If your ISP permits, you can prevent the external IP ...

If you are anything like me, you have probably been through your fair share of wireless routers. You may even have a collection of them growing in your storage room, if you haven't gotten around to ...

I'm currently using a WRT54G router with Tomato firmware and I have a simple residential dynamic ip address cable modem. The cable modem is in "bridged" mode and the router is set to use DHCP to get ...

We just saw that the mask determines where the boundary between the network and host portions of the IP address lies. This boundary is important: If it is set too far to the right, there are lots of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The consolidation of the Internet Protocol as the foundation of most communications services has ...