When I were in college just a few short years ago, we had two options for getting online: the building-wide wifi, and our in-room ethernet. The building-wide wifi was slow and laggy, since the majority of residents defaulted to using this network. Adding to that, we weren’t allowed to have routers in our rooms. While this was inconvenient, there is, of course, a way around everything. And in finding this solution, we found a pretty cool way to do some other things too. That said, here’s how you, too, can share your Mac’s Internet connection with your handheld devices quickly, easily, and most importantly, wirelessly.
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How to Connect Your iDevice to Your Mac’s Internet Connection Without a Wifi Router
By | August 23, 2010 |
How to Share a 3G Wireless Connection in Windows 7
By | January 6, 2010 |
There will be times when you need to access Internet on multiple computers, but there is only one Internet access point available. What should you do? There is one solution: create a WIFI hotspot so you can share the Internet connection among multiple computers, or with your friends. Previously, we have covered how to create a wifi hotspot for Mac. In this article, we are going to show you how to share your 3G wireless connection in Windows 7.
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How To Configure A Firewall In Linux Using Firestarter
By | March 29, 2009 |
Long back, when I was running a Windows only PC, a firewall utility was always among the first software that I used to install on a newly formatted machine. Along with an Antivirus, a firewall used to be considered a must for any Windows installation that was in any way connected to the outside world.
Of course, times have changed now. I use Linux almost exclusively and rarely see the Windows login prompt. Most Linux distributions are far more secure than Windows, out of the box, but the threat is still there and having a good firewall protecting your computer is still a good idea.
