Networking Tutorials & How-Tos

Posted by Lee Stanton on December 21, 2023

How to Slide Into DMs

Posted by Lee Stanton on December 17, 2023

How to Check Which Ports Are Open on a Windows 10 PC

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Posted by Lee Stanton on September 18, 2023

How to Connect to WiFi without WiFi Password

Posted by Steve Larner on August 4, 2023

What Is a VPN? How It Works and Common Uses

Transfer files between Android and PC wirelessly
Posted by Steve Larner on August 12, 2022

How to Wirelessly Transfer Files from PC to Android

Posted by Jamie on August 6, 2022

How to Use Your PC Computer or Laptop as a Wireless Router

Posted by Jamie on November 13, 2021

Does My Computer Have Bluetooth? How To Add it if it Doesn’t Have

Posted by Lee Stanton on July 9, 2021

How to Read Packets in Wireshark

Posted by Lee Stanton on May 23, 2021

How to Copy and Paste in PuTTY

Posted by Jordan on December 6, 2020

How to Change the Wi-Fi Channel on the Most Popular Routers

Posted by Jamie on December 6, 2020

Megabits and Megabytes: What’s the Difference?

Faster Wi-Fi: Boost Wi-Fi and make your phone internet and data speeds faster
Posted by Wayne Williams on October 30, 2020

Get Faster Wi-Fi: Boost Wi-Fi and Data Speeds on Your Phone, Laptop, and PC and Stop Neighbors from Stealing Your Bandwidth

Posted by David Bayon on October 25, 2020

How to Decommission, Reuse, or Sell Your Old PC

Posted by Steve Larner on September 22, 2020

Top Five Ways to Boost Your Mobile Broadband Hotspot Speeds

Posted by Steve Larner on August 30, 2020

Should You Broadcast Your Wi-Fi SSID or Keep it Hidden?

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Posted by Darien Graham-Smith on May 7, 2019

Plusnet Broadband review: Straightforward, simple and safe

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Posted by Ian Evenden on May 1, 2019

EE Broadband review: Persuasive offerings, particularly for EE customers

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Posted by Ian Evenden on April 24, 2019

Sky Broadband review: Reliable and fast, but be wary of hidden charges

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Posted by Ian Evenden on April 12, 2019

Virgin Media broadband review: Lightning-fast speeds come at a price

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Posted by Ian Evenden on January 30, 2019

BT Broadband review: Big internet packages at big prices

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Posted by Ian Evenden on January 30, 2019

Best broadband 2019: The best UK internet service providers

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Posted by Jake Stones on December 6, 2018

Qualcomm unveils new Snapdragon 855 chip with 5G at its heart

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Posted by Vaughn Highfield on November 15, 2018

Forget 5G, China is preparing for 6G

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Posted by Vaughn Highfield on November 14, 2018

These six UK cities will get 5G

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Posted by Clare Hopping on October 29, 2018

Openreach slashes cost of full-fibre connections to homes

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Posted by Tom Bedford on October 24, 2018

Your broadband could soon be 100 times faster

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Posted by Vaughn Highfield on October 4, 2018

Say goodbye to 802.11ac as Wi-Fi names are revamped

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Posted by Bobby Hellard on October 3, 2018

O2 and Three will use London sewers to spread 5G connectivity

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Posted by Jonathan Bray on September 3, 2018

Huawei’s AI Cube is an Alexa-powered, 4G portable router

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Posted by Nicholas Fearn on August 28, 2018

Millions of UK broadband customers are being mislead by their ISPs

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Posted by Vaughn Highfield on August 23, 2018

Qualcomm announce 5G-capable smartphone chips

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Posted by Edward Munn on June 11, 2018

Exeter named worst place in the UK for broadband and 4G as national speeds are ranked: How does your town fare?

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Posted by Bobby Hellard on June 6, 2018

Project Natick: Microsoft just plunged a 40ft-long data centre to the bottom of the North Sea

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Posted by Keumars Afifi-Sabet on May 18, 2018

NHS Capita outsourcing had potential to “seriously harm” patients

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Posted by Edward Munn on May 18, 2018

UK households receive half the broadband speed they pay for, report reveals

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Posted by Alex Lee on May 3, 2018

TalkTalk voted the worst UK broadband provider – again

Slow broadband
Posted by Alex Lee on April 30, 2018

Almost one million Brits still suffer with appalling broadband speeds, Ofcom report finds

Bluetooth tips and help
Posted by Alphr on April 13, 2018

Secret Bluetooth tips: How to print files and share your phone’s web connection without Wi-Fi

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Posted by Cloud Pro on March 16, 2018

Ingram Micro Cloud becomes headline sponsor for the UK Cloud

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Posted by Edward Munn on March 12, 2018

“Slingshot” router malware that went undetected for six years is one of the most advanced attacks ever seen

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Posted by Edward Munn on March 7, 2018

Three and Vodafone are being investigated over suspicions of unfair throttling

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Posted by Vaughn Highfield on February 26, 2018

Elon Musk claims SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellite service will be IP-less

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Posted by Vaughn Highfield on February 19, 2018

Mobile blackspots could be a thing of the past thanks to the Church of England

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Posted by Clare Hopping on February 12, 2018

EE hopes to solve woeful rural broadband speeds with its mini-router and antenna

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Posted by Edward Munn on February 6, 2018

New, super-fast wireless technology could hit our homes

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Posted by Bill Buchanan on December 20, 2017

Is your computer secretly mining Bitcoin alternatives? A beginner’s guide to ‘cryptojacking’

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Posted by Victoria Woollaston on December 18, 2017

Access to high-speed broadband will soon be a legal right for everyone in the UK

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Posted by Thomas McMullan on December 15, 2017

What Jersey can teach us about Russia’s ‘risk’ to undersea cables

Slow broadband
Posted by Victoria Woollaston on December 7, 2017

This tiny lane in Suffolk has the worst broadband in the whole of the UK

Net Neutrality UK
Posted by Edward Munn on November 21, 2017

What is net neutrality and what does it mean for the UK?