Personal firewalls are good protection when using a wireless hotspot, but since they can't tell the difference between a public hotspot and a private home network, it is important to tell them which one to use. Take care to do this; otherwise, the firewall may provide too little or too much protection and either one of these is bad.
Personal firewalls are different from regular firewalls. Personal Firewalls are software applications, which attempt to prevent, or warn about, unauthorized or suspicious network access by other applications on the same computer. There are a few key things you should understand about them.
A common problem that people are having when trying to add a wireless printer to their wireless network is MAC addresses filtering. This is somewhat surprising given how little security protection this provides and how many problems it creates.
The last posting described how a VPN connection blocks the ability to print to a local network printer. Sadly, the only way to restore the ability to print over the local network connection is to just end the VPN session. There is no way to expose a network printer to a PC running a VPN connection that is hiding the local network. Luckily, there are some ways to print without using a network connection.
I wanted to let you know that HP blogs will be migrating to a new platform over the next week. As of tomorrow, May 23, I won't be posting to my blog and won't be able to receive any comments submitted. Please hold your comments until June 1 when our new
The last posting explained how to find helpful documents on the HP web site as an alternative to using a general search engine like Google. This time I thought I would give an example, which illustrates why it is generally better to search the HP web
When something goes wrong with your network printer, a good first step is to check the web for information. You might be tempted to go to a search engine like Google and type a description of your problem to see if other people have had a similar problem
Home networks are a wonderful technology, enabling you to share internet connection and devices such as printers and storage among all computers in your home. They can also be complicated and a bit mysterious at times. Trying to figure out how to add
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