Internet networking involves a lot of alchemy, and I confess to occasionally dropping an eye of newt (or an IP of newt) into a boiling pot to fix problems on my local network. There’s a particular ...

One of the disconcerting things about using a virtual private network (VPN) is that it can be hard to tell when it's doing ...

Every computer connected to the Internet has a unique Internet Protocol (IP) address that identifies the device to other computers, allowing the user to browse the Web and access other online services ...

The majority of the time, we have no idea what the IP addresses of our devices are. You don't need to know that your phone has an IP address of 192.168.1.12 on your local network in order to use it.