Questions tagged [lan]
LAN, short for Local Area Network, is a network that connects multiple devices in a limited geographical area, such as a room, an apartment or a building. Currently, most LANs are based on Wi-Fi, linked together with means of a central wireless router or Ethernet transmission, where computers are linked via cable.
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Keeping a network connection unchanged when the laptop changes between wireless and wired
Like a lot of people, I have both wired and wifi connections at home. (the wired NIC is a USB 10 Gbps dongle).
Sessions are lengthy, so I often have to move my laptop location between rooms during the ...
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Spotify shows my receiver but cannot play/connect?
I am on a Mac at the moment and try to play Spotify connect on my receiver. Spotify shows my receiver under devices but can not connect/play. If I disable my firewall on my Mac I can play over AirPlay ...
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Is there a way that some devices can communicate in the local network but not the wider Internet?
I have really old hardware (for example a receiver) that does not get any security updates. I want to connect it to my local network without exposing it to beyond that.
My network hardware is:
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Windows DLNA not working
My Windows DLNA (The Media Share thing) was working before fine, but now it doesn't even appear on my iPhone VLC App, LG TV (the one I use to share DLNA) and Network Tab on Windows File Explorer.
DLNA ...
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How Can I Access my WebServer's Public-Facing [External] Website from my Company's Internal LAN
Problem = Internal users cannot access my website (MyWebDomain.com), but external users can. In other words, people who are outside my LAN can navigate to my website, but people who are inside my LAN ...
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Can a router WAN port be plugged into a switch’s LAN port?
I'm new to networking, and I'm trying to set up a basic homelab with an old Cisco router and switch. I know usually people get the router WAN input from a modem, but I don't really have access to that ...
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best ethernet cable type for lan
Im going to get some RJ45 ports installed at a central location where my ISP router and separate networking switch are which will go to various places in the house.
One of them will be in the middle ...
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How can I get my Pi-Hole server to access incoming email, from LAN only, not from internet?
My local network consists of a Linux desktop and a Raspberry Pi server, running (amongst other stuff) Pi-Hole. I installed postfix to enable internal email, which works in the direction Pi to desktop.
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Allowing inbound connections to run a Bitcoin full node [duplicate]
My system is Windows 11 with LAN connection to a Cambium R194W router. My Bitcoin node is running with 10 outbound connections but I can't seem to configure the system for inbound connections. What ...
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How to allow two industrial LAN subnets to talk through one router no WAN
I've read other questions but haven't found one that matches my situation exactly.
The situation is as follows:
It's an industrial network between robots and PLC's etc.
LAN A is on 172.16.x.x (this is ...
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I am losing icons on taskbar and my local network (not the internet somehow) after pc has been in standy, sleep or hibernate mode
So after 11 years this is still an issue? Based on search results on the internet, and none had a working solution for me. It worked fine for me for long time, no idea when or why it started but ...
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Local network using PON routers
Me and my friends have PON routers and we want to erect a LAN. Since our OPT (Optical Line Terminal) is far away, we have increased ping for each other, considering that we live in the same village. ...
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Routers and Broadcast Domains
OK so studying for some certs and seeing some conflicting information. I am trying to understand exactly what creates a "Broadcast Zone".
I get that a router is usually considered the ...
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SSH file sharing on Linux LAN suddenly stops working
I know very little about networking and TCP/IP. I have managed to successfully stream media on my LAN with no problems until yesterday. There are 6 machines, all running versions of Linux. The IP ...
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How to open the configuration login page of a pppoe ONT / ADSL modem?
I would like to ask for some help understanding how the network I have works.
The connection diagram is quite simple in fact:
Optical cable ---> [Zyxel ONT] ---> Ethernet cable ---> [Router ...
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