Some apps on your iPhone and iPad may ask for permission to find and connect to devices on your local network. These apps usually need to find compatible devices on your network — smart home apps may ...

So now that macOS Sequoia is here, half the apps on my machine are asking for permission to "access local network resources", but is there an explanation somewhere about what that actually means? Do ...

A data communications network within a home or office. "Local network," "local area network" and "LAN" are synonymous. Today's local network standards are TCP/IP, Ethernet and Wi-Fi. See LAN. THIS ...

Apple began including screen sharing nearly 20 years ago in its Mac operating system. If you have multiple Macs in your home or office on the same local area network (wired, wireless, both, or even ...

Mapping a drive refers to that feature of Windows 11/10 which gives its users the privilege of connecting to disks hosted remotely. For those organizations and ...

Local Network Game Transfers, now available on the beta Steam client, allow a player to transfer an existing Steam game installation from one PC to another over a local area network (LAN). This means ...

The proliferation of new top-level domains (TLDs) has exacerbated a well-known security weakness: Many organizations set up their internal Microsoft authentication systems years ago using domain names ...

Anyone who’s set up a router probably understands that the IP address “192.168.x.x” signifies your local IP address. Anyone who hasn’t…doesn’t. And the global nonprofit which oversees the Internet’s ...

CNET editor Dong Ngo explains the difference between Wi-Fi and (wireless) internet, and answers frequently asked questions on connectivity matters. Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with ...