As more companies embrace BYOD policies, the increase in devices can tax networks and complicate bandwidth management. To mange your bandwidth successfully, expert Craig Mathias says to follow these three steps: Manage Policy Regulate bandwidth and shape traffic Manage the whole network Do you agree with these steps? How would you manage your BYOD bandwidth [...]
Hello, I am working as a pre-sales network consultant. My job is 50 percent technical and 50 percent pricing. I am CCNA and CCNP certified and I need a change in job and career as there is no growth here. I am looking forward to security. Also will Unix/Linux/Perl knowledge give me better prospects in [...]
I hooked up everything through Direct TV and I can get Pandora through Direct TV, but I can’t get TV apps. For some reason, the lady at DIRECT TV said to me that I would have to somehow adjust the settings to my router, and open up the “UDP 1701-LT2P port”. So I’m looking at [...]
What are the differences among firewalls and routers.
I have this task of assembling a workstation, and I have been thinking of what model of system motherboard to use, and what Intel processor type to use and the type of media card to use The workstation is going to be used to hold large amount of data, and stores some high resolution media [...]
Local clients (Windows 7 64-bit) have no issues clicking on the shared printer and installing the drivers, But when trying to add the printer from across our WAN, the client gets prompted “Do you trust this printer?”, but once you select “Install Driver”, they simply get “Windows cannot connect to the printer, operation failed with [...]
65″ LED TV w 120Hz using Cisco or Linc video-conference system…… Would a 240 Hz TV make a real difference in videoconferencing quality?
I would like to know the framework for different network-based security information systems. Any help would be much appreciated.
Myself: I work an IT on-site help/service desk (2nd level). Client: HP Workstation running WinXP Pro SP3 x86 in a manufacturing role at a test station on an assembly line. Situation: All the computers in this division run under a local user account, logged in to the computer itself. They are joined to the domain [...]
Hello, I am currently a student at the University of Advancing Technology and I am learning about security implementation frameworks this week. I was looking into a framework named Security Knowledge in Practice (SKiP) and I noticed some things about the framework and I wonder if anyone who has implemented it would agree. The Good: [...]
Hi all, I have two sites with RV042′s at both ends. There is a VPN tunnel setup between the sites which works fine (both are in Gateway mode). However, I recently added a second RV042 to the second site and placed it in ‘router’ mode (as opposed to ‘gateway’ mode. The purpose of this second [...]
With security breaches becoming more frequent, expert Michael Gregg looks at network security tools that no tester should be without. We would like to know….what’s the one network security tool that you can’t live without?
Hi, I am facing issue with a server while I am accessing through remote. When I go through remote desktop connection, it gives me an error and I don’t have access. On the other hand, if I am trying to connect remote through console i.e mstsc /v:ipaddress /admin, I am able to login. Did anyone [...]
I’m a newbie and am using Cisco Packet Tracer. I have two 2811s with a 16 port FE module installed. I have a workstation hanging off each FE module. I cannot ping end to end, but can ping the WAN side of the two routers. I tried setting up static routes and also tried adding [...]
Hello, I have been given an assignment to write the programs. I really don’t understand anything about CSMA: Using any programming language of your choice including scripting languages write three programs to simulate the functionality of the following three protocols: CSMA, CSMA/CA, CSMA/, CSMA/CD
I am setting up a local network to update 20 computers with a file every week. I need help to write a batch file to wake up on LAN and remove and replace the old file (I can put the file any where on c: drive) with the new one. I ordered and received a [...]
Hi I am a system administrator and we are expected to make remote branch, all it matters is on my best solution I provide, else its gonna be in pipe, the question is to create IP addressing schemes for the Site B and Site A (main).All departments need to be in separate subnets.The external IP [...]
Hello I’m having a problem with the torrents I can’t download them, I believe it’s because of the college’s proxy, maybe they are blocking p2p connection? I just want to know if there’s a solution for this problem I heard some of the students did it and here’s some Info about the case: the proxy [...]
Hi, I hope I’m in the right place. I’m looking for some piece of equipment that would allow me to watch videos stored on my computer on my TV. I have an NBOX, but it died last night. With my NBOX, I needed to copy the files onto a USB key. I’m hoping to save [...]





