Often when you're working on a computer, you need to connect to other computers to run software or check data on them. This could involve connecting to a business server used by your work team or ...

If your company network is having problems and you need to troubleshoot it, you also need to know some basic information about the computers on the network. Internet Protocol is the underlying ...

Your IP address, which stands for Internet Protocol, is the unique number of your internet connection linked to all your internet and networking activities. A regular computer user would probably ...

Every device connected to a network has an IP address. It is a unique identifier that locates your computer or Mac on the network. Your Mac connects to the internet through a network or router; which ...

Your computer's IP address, the string of numbers used to identify your computer online, can be found in Windows easily. You usually don't need to know your IP address, and it's usually assigned ...

You’ve heard about it before: an unknown online assailant has been inundating someone in your town with bothersome messages. Luckily, even though that person’s profile may be devoid of identifying ...

Internet networking involves a lot of alchemy, and I confess to occasionally dropping an eye of newt (or an IP of newt) into a boiling pot to fix problems on my local network. There’s a particular ...

I have a user who's machine is not pingable on our network, using computer hostname or associated IP. However, in troubleshooting this, I see that the IP the machine actually has does not resolve to ...

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 ...

To find your IP address on a Mac, go to System Preferences. Your Mac computer may also have an external or public IP address. To find your external IP address, you can use Google. An IP address, short ...