Saturday, January 26, 2008

How to access your router on xp or vista!

There are many reasons you may want to access your router, one being to set up a dns, or opening ports for hosting online game servers!
  1. click start
  2. click run
  3. type cmd
  4. click ok
    1. (an command prompt should appear)
  5. In the command prompt, type "ipconfig /all" (without quotes)
  6. The output should look something like this: image
  7. In the output look for "Default Gateway"
  8. In the example image, the default gateway is 192.168.0.1
  9. Copy and paste YOUR default gateway into a browser's address bar.
  10. If you don't know what I mean by address bar, it looks something like this: image
  11. Now simply enter your password for your router, if you don't know it, and don't remember changing it from the default, check here: http://www.routerpasswords.com/
  12. If your router default password doesn't work, talk to the "techie" of the family! or aim me: gshortyn for more help!
  13. Now if you're logged in, you should have full power over your router, and you should be able to access it at the default gateway under the same username and password at anytime


Thanks for reading my guide to you and your router!

Friday, January 25, 2008

Faster Internet, 3 simple letters! DNS!

So, if you don't know about how the internet operates, it goes a lil' something like this...


First you visit a website, like when you go to www.google.com you are connecting to their server, through a domain name server, or dns. The dns lets you go from just a name (google.com) to connect to their server. In this way dns controls what servers you connect to, and the underliying speed behind it!

Now that you know what a dns is, the dns I suggest is opendns.com , it's free, fast, and secure!

just look at the list of features they offer:

http://www.opendns.com/features/overview/

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Stalker in training...? HELL YES!

Are you a creepy stalker? NO?!? Well it's damn fun! Track you "friends" on
http://www.spokeo.com/
The FUN online "friend finder!" It's really fast at finding all of your friend's information based their email!

Enjoy your family fun!