Back when I worked in the Network Operations department at one of my previous jobs, we used to chuckle when a customer would call us reporting that “the Internet is down.” Now, I realize that there ...

Network troubleshooting can challenge even the most experienced IT professionals. New issues can crop up any time a device is added or the network changes, and it can be difficult to determine exactly ...

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Did you know that Microsoft has packed in five Windows Troubleshooters into the Windows 11/10 operating system to troubleshoot and automatically fix Network-related problems? In this post, we will ...

Are you the best network troubleshooter in your shop? Maybe you’re the go-to person to fix problems when the network falls apart. Maybe you know who that person is, and you know you need them to come ...

Windows releases have become pretty stable in recent years. The Windows 11 upgrade process is safe and simple, and if something goes wrong, rolling back to a previous version is easy. It's uncommon ...

2 different networks that I support are having problems that I am having a hard time tracking down. Both just got new servers with pretty similar configurations, and both are having intermittent ...

Bring your own device (BYOD), digital transformation and other trends have raised the bar on Wi-Fi. A decade or so ago, Wi-Fi was a “nice to have” for most organizations, and users understood the ...

Figure 1. Link and activity lights can tell you a lot about the connection between two network devices. All network architectures rely upon a physical (or RF) connection between devices.

The process of troubleshooting your network involves a methodology that starts with cabling and works through the OSI model to the application layer. The network devices have a network cable that ...

In many ways, the art of networking today is quite different from when I entered the field about 17 years ago as a part-time student assistant in the networking group at the university where I was ...