Each device on your network has a private IP address only seen by other devices on the local network. But your ISP assigns you a public IP address that other devices on the Internet can see. Here’s how that works and how you can find those IP addresses. An IP address (or Internet Protocol address) identifies each networked computer and device on a network. When…
We re not yet living in a Star Trek universe with teleporters to beam us from place to place instantly, but virtual network computing (VNC) and remote access might be the next best thing. Want to check up on a video file that you left exporting to a different format at work overnight? Or need to help troubleshoot a distant employee s PC? These tools let you assume…
This documentation is archived and is not being maintained. Applies To: Windows Server 2008 R2 RD Connection Broker can use either IP address redirection or routing token redirection to redirect a client to the Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) server where their session exists. When you configure RD Connection Broker settings in the Remote Desktop…
Many readers of our website are contacting us for help on *allegedly* hacked IP address, and remedies for getting it back. One of the user is telling us his IP address used to be 64.3.x.y in Dallas and now it s 67.72.x.y located in Utah (per ip lookup); and hence his IP address is stolen, and his computer is running very slow and acting abnormal. For a non-computer…
Remote access is the ability to access a computer or device remotely. It sounds simple enough, right? Well, it can be, but it can also be kind of tricky. Lots of people use remote access to access files on a computer while they are away from the office, or their home and some people even use it to monitor an IP camera to ensure their business or home are safe…
Sometimes (wy to often) I have to check that a site I’m working on looks like it should in Internet Explorer 6, Safari on Mac or some other browser that I can’t run in Windows 7. In this case I wanted to access it from IE6 running in XP Mode. I could of course deploy it to IIS and make it publicly available, but since I’m now using IIS Express for running my…
Most networks will automatically assign an and other details to your computer when you connect to the network. These details can change periodically, but you might want to have a fixed IP address for the computer so you always know what its address is (for example, if it is a file server). Open the overview and start typing Network. Click on Network to open the…
