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Question from Freddie: Hi, Rick. I hope you can help me with a problem I’m having.
I’m needing to connect a desktop computer that’s in my basement to my router which is in my sunroom (on the far end of the ground floor of my house).
I tried using a USB Wi-Fi adapter but the signal was just too weak to maintain a usable connection. [Read more…]
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Question from Travis: I’m building a cabin on the back side of my parents’ ranch that my wife and I will be staying in several times a year when we visit them.
We’ll be staying several days on each trip so I’ll need to be able to work from the cabin. And it looks like that might be a problem. [Read more…]
Question from Jaimey: I opened a LinkedIn account a couple of years ago when I was thinking about switching jobs.
I never really used that account and I haven’t logged into it in forever.
I receive several emails a day from LinkedIn with updates and other stuff and it wastes my time having to delete them.
Since I never use this account I’d like to delete it. Can you tell me how?
As you probably know, scammers love using phishing emails to trick people into handing over their personal information and the login info for their online accounts.
The thing is, scammers are targeting potential victims via their cell phones too.
In fact, there’s a major text message phishing scam going on right now that’s snagging a lot of victims because it’s so easy to fall for. [Read more…]
A friend asked me the other day whether he should connect his computer to his router via WiFi or over a wired Ethernet connection.
My answer was…It depends.
First of all, is the computer in question sitting near the router or is it located in another room in the house?