Windows Vista WiFi Connection – Not a No Brainer

The other day I wrote about a problem connecting a new Gateway laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium (the sticker on the laptop said “Vista Basic”) to wireless networks – WiFi and Vista Problems.
With or without WiFi security, the Vista laptop would connect, but not obtain a DHCP address. Interestingly, setting an address manually would [...]

Power Management – Don’t let it disconnect your internet

I had a question submitted to me from a website visitor that brought this problem to mind. Sometimes Power management on your computer will, whether a laptop or not, try after a period of inactivity to shut off your wireless or your wired network adapter to save power.
The problem I have seen is that many [...]

Gigabit Network Speed? You Had Better Check!

Don’t assume things, with your network or anything else. Hopefully you have seen the word “assume” diagrammed before so you know what I mean. I run a gigabit network at my place, and with a 3 month old PC that’s a Core 2 Duo, I expect performance.
But network file transfers seemed sluggish. I would have [...]