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Jan 09 2015

What is a personal VPN and why do you need it?

Virtual Private Network 2 Last Modified on 2024-06-14
Personal VPN
A VPN, or Virtual Private Network, is used to securely connect to another network via a public or a private network. A VPN creates a private network within a broader network, thus providing added-security using encryption and network tunneling mechanisms. A VPN is like a bridge that connects two islands (here, LANs) to establish an private, secure and more reliable connection between the two islands (here, local networks). This helps ease security and privacy issues; since the data transmitted over a VPN is encrypted and unreadable to general Internet community. There are two types of VPNs, namely remote-access VPN and site-to-site VPN.

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Jan 08 2015

What is the Difference Between Proxies and VPN?

Proxy, Virtual Private Network 0 Last Modified on 2023-08-24
Difference between Proxy and VPN
The main purpose of using both proxies and VPN services is to hide the IP Address of the users or to prevent tracking bodies and individuals from identifying their location. For example, this may even be used to access certain sites that are not otherwise accessible in the user's country. A lot of VPN providers also provide proxy services apart from providing VPN services. You can also use many public proxy servers at little to no charge.

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Oct 26 2014

What is the difference between a wifi hotspot and tethering?

Network 0 Last Modified on 2018-11-18
Hotspot vs Tethering
In the last two decades or so, a number of new ways through which we can access the internet have been introduced. Traditionally, the internet could be accessed via telephone wires, satellites, cables, and mobile devices. Often, tethering and hotspot are confused with each other.

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Oct 07 2014

What are different Email protocols?

Email 0 Last Modified on 2022-12-20
Email Protocols
When we speak about email accounts, there are multiple protocols which are involved. This can be extremely confusing if you are not aware of what protocols exist for emails. Also, each of this protocols performs slightly different functionality. The commonly used protocols are- IMAP, POP3, SMTP, and Exchange. These are few protocol types one would come across while accessing an email client. The protocol details can be accessed via the server settings based on the email client being used.

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Aug 05 2014

What is the purpose of your website?

World Wide Web 1 Last Modified on 2024-02-23
Purpose of website
Do you know why you're creating a website? Are you trying to sell products online, provide customer support to your business, or make money online through advertisement and affiliate marketing? Here are a few reasons why you may want to build websites.

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Jul 18 2014

How to Generate Good SEO Keywords?

Search Engine Optimization 0 Last Modified on 2018-11-18
Generate SEO Keywords
Search Engine Optimized (SEO) topics (also known as keywords) are a very common thing in today’s world which a lot of websites and blogs utilize to generate web traffic. These topics are different from other topics in that they utilize special keywords which are usually used in search engines. Because of this, these topics grant a high chance for the website which hosts them to appear on the results page of one of these searches; thus, increasing the chances of the website gaining web traffic. It is for this reason why many websites focus on publishing SEO topics; however, there are some who struggle to feasibly accomplish this.

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Jul 11 2014

What is a Network?

Network 0 Last Modified on 2018-11-18
Network
A network is a connection between one or more nodes (devices) regardless of distance and size. They are established for the sake of communication of data between the nodes. To accomplish this, the nodes will utilize circuit switching, message switching, or packet switching to send the data through from one signal to another. They are the basis for telephone networks, computer networks, and the Internet as a whole.

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Apr 19 2013

How to find my computer's Private IP address?

IP Address 0 Last Modified on 2018-11-18
How to find computer's private IP address
To connect your computer to the Internet, you'll need an IP address. If your computer is directly connected to the gateway (or switch) provided by your ISP, your computer gets a public IP address from your ISP. However, if your computer is connected to the Internet via a router within your home network, your computer gets a private IP address from your router and your router gets the public IP address from your ISP. To learn more about public and private IP addresses, please read What is public and private IP addresses article.

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Feb 06 2013

How to locate your email header?

Email 0 Last Modified on 2023-10-05
How to locate email header
To trace an email, you'll need to locate the email header that came with the email. Every email has an email header and message body. An email may be going through a number of hops, and a header is appended with the IP address of the email server processing the email. When an email reaches the final destination, your email provider appends its IP address to the header.

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Nov 16 2012

My IP address is hacked. What can I do?

Cybersecurity, IP Address 1 Last Modified on 2018-11-18
IP Address Hacked
Many readers of our website are contacting us for help on *allegedly* hacked IP address, and remedies for getting it back. One of the user is telling us his IP address used to be 64.3.x.y in Dallas and now it's 67.72.x.y located in Utah (per ip lookup); and hence his IP address is stolen, and his computer is running very slow and acting abnormal.

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