Networking Tips
Want quick access to your files when you are away from homeHave public Remote Access files that you want to make private, or vice-versa?
Want More Protection on Your Home Network?
Automatic Security In A Foreign Network
Automatic Detection & Configuration of Your Printers Across the Entire Network
Always Know the Status of Your Network in Three Easy Places!
Management of Your Devices Easy!
Things to Avoid In Order To Help Maximize Your Wireless Transmissions
SmartShare - Easy Ways to Share Any File
MAC Address On My PC and Devices? But I'm not an Apple User...
Easily Identify and Know New Devices and "Visitors" To Your Network
Want a file to be permanently located on two computers in your network?
Want quick access to your files when you are away from home?
By setting up your Remote Access site you can publish your shared files to a personalized Web address that will allow you to access them from anywhere. You can even password protect some files so only you can see them! So as long as you have Internet, you have your files!
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Have public Remote Access files that you want to make private, or vice-versa?
Changing the status of your shared folders, in relationship to your Remote Access site is simple. Find the folder in the Shared Folders section of the Network Magic Client, right click on the folder you want to change permissions for, and select the "change folder settings" task. Easy as can be!
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Want More Protection on Your Home Network?
One way to secure your router is by setting up your WEP key which, by default, is disabled. To turn it on, unfortunately, you are going to have to review the instructions that come with it. However, once it is on, other people will no longer have easy access to your router, network, or files!
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Automatic Security In A Foreign Network
With Network Magic installed you receive enhanced wireless protection. For example, when you enter into a foreign network (i.e. WiFi Hot Spots) Network Magic's PC Shield automatically locks down shared folders (from being accessed by "outsiders") and then will unlock them when you reconnect to your home or another "authorized" network.
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Automatic Detection & Configuration of Your Printers Across the Entire Network
SmartSetup, Network Magic's intelligent home networking set up tool, will automatically detect and configure your PC, shared files, printers, and devices, something that normally requires manual downloading/installing of drivers into each PC in the home. SmartSetup can even do this across Windows operating systems.
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Always Know the Status of Your Home Network
With Network Magic you always know what is going on with your home network connections because the Network Status tool keeps you posted on the condition of your home network. If there is a problem, the Network Status will indicate the issue to you and with a simple click of a button Network Magic will attempt to repair the problem for you. To make it even easier you can check up on your home network from three locations:
- The Network Map displays icons that indicate the current status of each computer, device, and connection.
- The Network Status Box (located in the upper right hand of the Network Magic application) will change its display depending upon the current status of the entire network. A green check indicates that your home network is fully functioning and if there is something wrong, a red X will appear.
- The Taskbar Icon is an additional quick place to see how your home network is performing. Simply rest the mouse pointer over the Network Magic icon in the taskbar and it will display a snapshot of your home network's current connectivity status.
Managing Your Devices Easier Than Ever!
With Network Magic you can easily manage all the many devices you have on your home network. Furthermore, many routers and devices have a Web-based administrative utility for managing settings and a lot of times these tend to be complex and difficult to navigate to and around. With Network Magic this problem is simplified! You are able to launch the utility or specific actions within the device from right inside Network Magic. For example, if you have a network camera on your home network, follow these simple steps to access its feed:
- Click on associated icon with your network camera in the Network Map
a. Further information about this camera (such as IP Address) will then appear - In the "tasks" section, click on the "set up or manage device" link
- You will then automatically be taken to the web utility associated with the camera
- And like *that* you can see the direct feed from the camera!
Avoiding Interference With Your Wireless Transmissions
If you are not quite getting the most out of the wireless router on your home network try seeing if any of the following are the cause for your problems:
- Metal keep antenna's (and routers) away from metal desks and filing cabinets
- Water keep fish tanks out of the room your wireless router is in as well as out of rooms you want to access your WiFi from
- 2.4 GHz Cordless Telephones Can cause interference when in use
- Microwave Ovens Also can cause interference when they are in use
- Amateur Radios Can also cause interference when being used.
- Interference can also come from: double-glazed windows, concrete cinder blocks & bricks
SmartShare - Easy Ways to Share Any File
Three Simple Ways to Share Any File
- When you share a file Network Magic automatically adds it to the "My Shared Folders" on the desktop - from inside this folder, select "Add a Shared Folder" and follow the prompts from there.
- To add an existing folder, right click on the folder icon and select "Add to Shared Folders."
- Within an application - selection "File - Save As" and navigate to My Shared Folders on the Windows Desktop
MAC Address On My PC and Devices? But I'm not an Apple User...
Here, MAC does not stand for Macintosh, but rather Media Access Control and it gives you a unique identification number for a computer or a device that is related to the network adapter in the network.
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Easily Identify and Know New Devices and "Visitors" To Your Network
Did you know that Network Magic's Intruder Detection allows you to be informed about who and what is accessing your network and also keeps a log in the Detection Center? This way you can keep on top of who is accessing your network, and how frequently they are doing it.
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Want a file to be permanently located on two computers in your network?
Dragging and dropping files using Network Magic couldn't be any easier. Simply open the shared folder on the computer the file is currently located on and open a folder on the computer you will like to transfer the file too, and drag the desired file from one shared file to the other. As easy as that, the file is now on both computers!
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