I've just installed a Maxtor 300GB external Shared Storage Drive, which connects via Ethernet to the network rather than USB to an individual computer. However, it doesn't show up on either Norton Speed Disk or the Disk Defragmenter built into XP - how do I defrag it..? Is there a utility which will do it..? Ivor

Hi all, I use a speedtouch 716 wireless modem for my network. In the router page I can see who is connected, but I need to see how much traffic they are generating. Is there a way to make this visible? Regards, Marcel

Hi Subject says it all really. I need to find which router would be best for a poor line. Initially it sync'd at 250k and my friend got a reliable connection. Recently he's seeing the router connect at 512k, but it keeps losing sync. His ISP has run tests and called out BT (his s/n ratio was down to 2 mb!). The BT engineer called and after a lot of fiddling around has got what he said was the...

Hi, I'm trying to access a computer on which the inbuilt video connection has died. I've inserted a compatable video card in a PCI slot but it doesn't fire the monitor when started up. Is is possible to access the PC via the network connection or serial port from another PC and get it to fire the new video card? Thanks and regards, Liam.

I've had no end of trouble getting a netgear usb adapter to work properly (i have to keep rebooting the netgear router) and I tried to use the windows software but netgear kept stopping me - Anyway I'm now going to try a pci card adapter in another computer and would like to use the windows zero thingy rather than netgear. Any advice from anyone who has done it? Can I just put the card in and...

Hi, I have an Axis 207 IP Camera which is plugged into the ADSL router, and I have forwarded port 80 for Internet access. I can view it over the LAN, but when I try to access it over the Internet I am asked for my routers user name and password. Surely this is not correct, as I have forwarded port 80 should I not be able to connect straight through the router to the camera. Thanks.

I'm running cables under carpets and want to terminate them at reasonably secure, but temporary, RJ45 network sockets on the skirting boards. No problem with TV coax, which I terminate with a Maplin mini coax socket which has the cable coming in from the side and is fixed with a single screw: http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=957 Anybody know of something along those lines for RJ45?

Following a system crash and repair I can no loner access the internet with any software. I have two PC's both connecting to a Draytek Vigor wireless router 2600. The icon for the router in the systray in the problem PC shows it connected, but I can't connect to the router with Internet Explorer or to the Internet with any software. The other PC works fine with the internet and can connect...

Hi, I have a Netgear DG834 v2 router. Their is a mac address connecting to the router which does not seem to belong to any of my attached devices. What I would like to know is, how can I block this mac address to see what happens. Thanks.

Hi all, I have a Netgear DG834G ADSL router, that I have configured to send it's log files out by email every day. All was fine until the first email after the end of July, where I have only just noticed that the "Sent" timestamp has suddenly gained an extra month - that is, all emails sent this month (July) are date stamped August. The date/time shown through the router admin screen is...

If I get a Broadband Internet Router which has a built in hardware firewall in the router will I still need to activate my Firewall within Windows XP Home? - I am a bit confused so can you put it in layman's terms. Cheers, Andy.

Does it matter which channel you set a router to in the UK? e.g 1-13?

Hi, The previous owner of my flat installed a network with wall sockets suitable to plug a BNC style network connector into. My hub has only RJ45 connectors. Is there some kind of converter that will plug into the BNC holes and give me a RJ45 socket? If so, what do I need? Thanks,

I am trying to avoid using yet another ethernet hub. I am sure that I have seen a RJ45 doubler connector somewhere (just like a telephone one but slightly bigger) but I can't find one anywhere now. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks

Anybody doing this successfully? If so what equip (as well as the router) are you using? I can't see a Netgear repeater product by Googling although I have seen a bridge/access point for gaming. I thought a bridge was to join two different networks or at least make one network work across two channels? Cheers D

Hi all Q Please does anyone know of a remote desktop admin program or that can be set to use dns, that does not use static ip addresses. I run dns from my broadband router so therefore everytime a machine is logged on a new ip address is given. I have tried setting the two pcs as static ip addresses but they then lose the internet. I used ramin remote admin until I changed to dns, but with...

The weirdest thing just happened. I'm watching my screen and theres a little bug of some sort walking across it so I go to brush it away but the bug is actually behind the monitor surface! It's wandering about and I can't seem to get rid of it! How is this possible? Is the monitor screen not sealed? It's really annoying me now! -- Regards

I hear horror stories about AOL and networking but have no direct experience. A friend want to set up a small office network that will allow VPN access, he has a current dialup access with AOL and doesn't want to lose his present email address so is considering AOL's broadband. I've had a brief look at the FAQs on AOL's web page and can't forsee any major difficulties.

I wish to share my ADSL connection with several neighbours. However, I do not wish them to share my Draytek router's wireless network, so I intend to give them access via ethernet cable to one of my Draytek router's ethernet ports. My own and my girlfriend's laptops will connect to the Draytek's wireless network, but I want to ensure that our network traffic is isolated from the neighbours, both...

A customer has just move to a new office which has a phone system which requires her to dial a 9 prefix to get an outside line from the socket which she will use for dial-up modem access. How do you configure AOL to dial the 9+pause prefix on the front of its pre-configured access numbers? Is there a way of editing the access number so as to add the 9 on the front?