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No one's forcing us to lock our front doors, but everyone does it anyway. Encryption plays a similar role in safeguarding your internet connection, except that many people still don't do it. The concept of encrypting internet traffic isn't so well-known.

Simply put, encryption makes information unreadable by unauthorized third parties. Just as someone without a key can't access your locked house, no one without an encryption key can access your encrypted data.

We're going to cover all the basics to start locking the cyber doors to your internet connection. With the right tools, sensitive data can be protected without much hassle.

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When you’re deep into a match and your shots aren’t landing right, it might not be your aim. It could be your DNS. DNS stands for Domain Name System, and its main goal is to find the right IP address so you can successfully connect every time you enter a website name.

In online games, your connection speed matters a lot. During intense gaming sessions, you always want quick response times and lower latency.

Here, we’ll break down the best DNS servers for gaming, how they impact your gaming experience, how to test them, and how to set them up.

Computers talk with each other in numbers and humans in words. That's a simplification, of course, but it gives us a good idea of what DNS servers do — translate words of domain names (cometvpn.com) into numbers of IP addresses (172.67.201.66).

A DNS server can be a privacy hazard as it has to be informed about every website you visit. A private DNS solves this problem by allowing you to use a DNS provider of your choice, possibly with encryption. We explain what private DNS is and how to set it up below.

Ethernet and Wi-Fi are the two main ways to connect your computer to the internet. While Wi-Fi has received significantly more attention in recent years, especially among consumers, due to its simplicity and flexibility, ethernet is still widely used in various other applications.

Even if Wi-Fi is significantly more popular, it isn’t strictly better. Both methods have their benefits and drawbacks. Wi-Fi’s popularity comes from its ease-of-use and flexibility, but an ethernet connection can be much more useful in certain scenarios.

More than one tool can be fit to achieve the same task. Usually, it's best to choose the most universal one, but the simplicity of the alternative might be tempting. Such is the choice between a smart DNS and a VPN service.

Smart DNS is more of a quality-of-life improvement, allowing you to bypass the most basic blocks. A VPN server, on the other hand, is a full-fledged security and privacy solution for everything you do online.

Granted, smart DNS services still have their applications, and you might be tempted to use both. To learn how to wield is to understand their differences and benefits, which is exactly what this article will explain.

You don't need to be a systems administrator to look after your home network. Many issues can be resolved by understanding a couple of concepts and using the right tools. Media Access Control address, or simply MAC address, is one of the most important.

Each device has its own MAC address, a 12-digit hexadecimal number assigned as a unique identifier. Finding the device's MAC address is useful for various cybersecurity and troubleshooting purposes.

You can identify the device - its maker and sometimes model, without having the device on hand or knowing its IP address. It's also useful for discovering unknown or unauthorized devices on your network. Whatever your reason, we'll help you find device name by MAC address in your network.