Every piece of information sent over your network travels within a packet. When you're having network problems, monitoring your packets helps you assess if you have a connection to other computers on ...

Network packet analyzer or Online Ad Scanner are the names for the same potentially unwanted program, or PUP, that is installed by free software you download from the Internet. When installed, this ...

A follow up to our previous guide (Quick and dirty Wireshark tutorial), this advanced Wireshark tutorial will help you delve into Wireshark’s more advanced features. While the first section of this ...

Voice over IP (VoIP) is the descriptor for the technology used to carry digitised voice over an IP data network. VoIP requires two classes of protocols: a signaling protocol such as SIP, H.323 or MGCP ...

Have you ever performed surgery on data packets? There are times when that may be the best way to troubleshoot and optimize your network. This edition of the Packet Professor will get you started in ...