Multi-user MIMO Routers Announced

Asus’s new 802.11ac router, the RT-AC87U, is the first commercial router that supports Wave 2 802.11ac, using a chip from Quadtenna.

Wave 2 uses multi-user multiple-input-multiple-output, or MU-MIMO. While MIMO can transmit multiple parallel streams of data over the same spectrum, until now those paralled streams couldn’t go to multiple people simultaneously.

What Is Port Forwarding

How Do you feel when someone tells you there’s a port forwarding problem and that’s why your shiny new app won’t work? Your Xbox won’t let you play games, your torrent downloads refuse to start, or your web server can’t be accessed? Well, I’m here to dispel the difficulty and explain just what port forwarding is, and how it can help you.

What Are Ports?

You probably have a good idea about how networks work already, in that each device has an IP address. There are two types of IP address; public and private. Public IP addresses are accessible anywhere in the world; private ones are used on internal networks – such as 192.168.x.x, or 10.0.x.x. In order to receive information back from the Internet, data requests are sent out with both a global IP address – corresponding to your router – and a local IP address, corresponding to your PC or other networked device.

How to Change Your IP Address Using PowerShell

We have already shown you how you can change your IP address from the command prompt, which required long netsh commands, now we are doing the same thing in PowerShell, without the complexity.

How to change IP Address From the Command Prompt

Most everybody can figure out how to change their IP address using Control Panel, but did you know you can set your network card’s IP address using a simple command from the command prompt? Geeks, IT Engineers, Network Admins prefer to use command line to perform such operations.

One Network Admin’s Tool to rule them All …

If you are an IT or Network Administrator, you would know the importance of software tools to make your job and life easier. Just Google your required tool and you will find thousands of tools available – some free some not. Not sure about you but I always wondered if I can have all those small tools in one place and guess what – Yes I can.

Here comes Net Tools 5.0.