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Question from Beverly: I’ve always thought that Internet and WiFi were just two names for the same thing, but someone told me they were different.
Is that true? If it is, what’s the difference?
Rick’s answer: What that person told you is accurate, Beverly.
While WiFi and the Internet are frequently used together, they are in fact completely different technologies that serve two very different purposes. [Read more…]
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Question from Beverly: I hope you can clear something up for me, Rick.
I consider myself to be fairly tech savvy for my age but I have no idea what people mean when they use the term “Internet of Things”, or “IoT”.
It seems like I see that term in a news article or on some website just about every day. Can you explain to me what it means? [Read more…]
I receive hundreds of tech questions every week and they tend to vary quite a bit. But some topics just seem to come up time and again.
One of those recurring topics involves the potential danger of certain people discovering your IP address.
While I usually don’t worry all that much about folks discovering my IP address, there are times when it does pay to keep it a secret if at all possible. [Read more…]
New U.S. and state government programs aimed at expanding rural broadband Internet access have Internet Service Providers (ISPs) expanding into new areas, resulting in new high speed Internet options for rural consumers.
Of course that’s a good thing if you happen to live in an area where your only viable Internet options are satellite (and if you’re lucky, DSL).
After all, it’s always good when consumers are provided with real choices for higher quality service at a better price.
Unfortunately, as always happens in situations like this, these expanding Internet service options are being exploited by scammers looking to make a fast buck off as many innocent victims as they possibly can. [Read more…]
Most folks have their favorite websites/pages bookmarked on their browser’s “Favorites” bar.
That makes it easy to quickly launch once of those sites with a single click without having to go through the hassle of using Google or typing the site’s URL into the address bar every time.
There are times when it helps to launch a bookmarked page in a new browser tab to prevent it from replacing the page that’s already displayed in the browser.