The wet season is fast approaching and we have already seen a little bit of rain this weekend which is playing havoc with peoples modems and routers. Every year when it starts to rain we get a influx if phone calls form customers whose internet has gone down. This is not a coincidence, and it really applies to people who… Read more →
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Different Ways to Connect to Your Printer or Scanner
With so many different types of gadgets and different types of connections now, it can be a bit confusing know how to connect something as simple as a basic printer or scanner. For the most part it is not too hard, however there are always different variations and different ways depending no much anymore but the type of computer you… Read more →
Port Forwarding
What are Ports When accessing the internet, your computer most likely has a private and public IP address. Your IP address (Internet Protocol) is a unique address assigned to your network which distinguishes you from every other computer/network on the internet. Loosely speaking, when you request a web page in your browser such as www.townsvillenerds.com, your computer sends a request… Read more →
What is a VPN
VPN’s seem to be all the rage these days. Whether you have heard about them on the news, seen them advertised on the internet or been heard about people using them for illegal downloads, everyone thinks they either need one or are missing out on something if they don’t have one. But what exactly are VPN’s. In the sense we… Read more →
What are Network Shares
With every new Operating System becoming easier and easier to do things, network sharing is becoming increasingly more popular. You may have heard the term before and not really understood what it is, and if you have and media devices around your house, you might already be using it and not know it. In its essence network shares are files… Read more →
Remote Access Your Computer with Teamviewer
Being able to access your home or work computer from another location, including your phone can be a very valuable recourse. Whether its because you constantly need to check something on your computer like downloads or messages, or its a one off where you have forgot something for work or study and don’t want to travel all the way back and… Read more →
Things to do with an Old Computer – Part 2
Create a Online Network Storage Device A network storage device is a computer which doesn’t have to be very powerful on your network you can store files on. Most people back up onto their external hard drive or to a online service like your Google Drive or Dropbox storage. Uploading and downloading your files from an online service can be very… Read more →
Things to do with an Old Computer – Part 1
It feels like only yesterday when no one had a computer. Yep I sound old but I am still in my 30’s and it really wasn’t that long ago there was no internet, people didn’t have mobile phones which surfed the web and have internet and people only had one computer in their house. As the technology has developed and… Read more →
Difference Between VOIP and PTSN
What is PTSN PTSN stands for Public Switched Telephone Network, and before the internet became mainstream was the old telephone type system we have and still use a lot in our homes and business. If you have seen the old movies where someone sits at a desk switching telephones together from calls inbound and connecting to calls outbound you have… Read more →
Different types of Printers – Part 2
Multifunction Printers Multifunction printers try to do everything from Faxing, Printing, Scanning, and Photocopying. They are usually built in with the ability to connect to your network over the Wireless and Ethernet and also have a telephone port to be able to make calls and receive faxes. You will know if your printer is Multifunctional because it is larger than… Read more →