A home wired network can be used to connect your Xbox game console (or any other network-ready game device, such as Playstation or Wii) with your personal home computer, and with your Internet Router for accessing Xbox Live resources.
Setting up a home network doesn’t have to be a scary task. The network diagram below shows [...]

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Multimedia applications (such as RealAudio, VoIP Telephony, Video Streaming etc) were always an issue when passing through a network firewall. These kind of applications behave in unique ways:

They use dynamic ports.
They transmit request using TCP and get responses in UDP or TCP.
They use the same port for source and destination.
For each multimedia request, the multimedia [...]

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As we have discussed in the post “The need for setting up a home network”, one of the benefits of having a wired or wireless network set up in your home is that you can remotely monitor the inside of your home using a security wireless camera. The security camera can be connected either wired [...]

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I was reading an article the other day stating that a computer directly connected to the Internet without any protection (firewall, antivirus etc) will be hacked in less than 10 minutes. To resist the million attacks that your home computer will receive when connected to the Internet “jungle”, I would recommend the following security protection mechanisms:
Social [...]

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If you are a dialup user, you may be having some concerns with a slow Internet connections. I’m sure that you have experienced, slow downloads, slow connect, slow to open even the simplest website, and all of the fun things that can go along with dialup. There is an answer to this by [...]

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