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When concurrently connected to wired and wireless ensure Windows 7 uses wired connection
When I am at my desk and my laptop is in its docking station I want to ensure that it uses its wired connection and not my wireless network. I am hoping/guessing that the preference in connection is ...
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How do i make any application use my eth0:0 interface?
Like in curL, we have a bind address option, we can download using a certain interface..
For ex, to download from eth0:0 we use $curl --interface eth0:0 http://www.google.com
This way, my aim is to ...
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Lost all "Local Network Connection"s in Windows XP
I'm having a bit of a Windows XP SP3 networking issue. Basically I have lost my "Local Network Connection" and nothing I do brings it back. I've tried Add/Remove Hardware, I've uninstalled and ...
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How to identify and use an existing fiber installation?
When my parents had their house built about 10 years ago, the wiring guy told them that he should install some fiber in the walls, saying that it would be good for future use. So there is some kind of ...
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Ubuntu networking error on startup, works with restart
Recently on a system restart we are forced to activate our networking by manually entering the command
/etc/init.d/networking restart
otherwise eth0 is not defined or active.
Can anyone identify ...
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Combining two ethernet ports
My computer has two gigabit ethernet ports on the motherboard. Is it possible to have the OS (Win XP) combine them and treat as a single 2-gigabit connection? Failing that, is there any general ...
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MacBook Pro (unibody) not detecting ethernet cable
I've got a 15 inch unibody MacBook Pro. So far I've been using WiFi and everything worked well. I've just switched to wired network and the machine doesn't seem to detect the network cable when it's ...
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How to restore broken Ethernet functionality on Mac G5 running Mac OS 10.4.11 (Tiger)
I had a disk error that rendered my Mac unbootable. I repaired it with Tech Tool 4, but now networking does not work.
Network Preferences reports that my Ethernet cable is unplugged. I know this is ...
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How do I wire a crossover cable to connect two devices together?
I need to make a ethernet crossover cable to connect two devices together. Anyone know the process to make one from scratch?
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Should I use a network hub or network switch?
I want to put a networking device on an Ethernet connection between 2 digital devices. The communication will be 1-to-1; there will only be 2 devices connected through the networking device. And I ...
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