By Harris Andrea

In my workplace (I work in an ISP provider in Europe) we always encourage junior network engineers to follow a Cisco certification path, either through the Routing and Switching path or other important technology paths such as network security and VoIP. I have been in this industry for more than a decade and I firmly believe that in order to succeed in the networking professional career one must earn relevant professional certifications.

by Jim Rjindael

If you want to stay anonymous on the internet then one of the first lessons to learn is how to hide my IP address. The IP address is your address on the internet and can be easily tracked back to your computer. In fact a worrying development all over the world is for Governments to force ISPs to hold this information to build up a comprehensive web surfing record of all it’s citizens. This is already a Directive in the European Union and many countries are planning to create external databases with all this information for various agencies.

By Gregg Hall

How many computers do you have at home? How many of those are in use? Do you have a number of computer users as well? One in the study, couple in the kid’s room, one for the kitchen, if you have more than two computers and computer users in your home then you may try networking all the computers.

What are the benefits of home networking?

• If connected to a network, files can be sent back and forth by each computer.

• You can play music and video files from another computer.