Sunday, November 21, 2010

How do i change a devices name in which the network detects?

i went into my router and wanted to find the drivers attached to it and the name of the devices were shown but some said it hade an UNKNOWN name i tried changing the computers name and it still detects unknown in the router

how do i chang its name for the networkHow do i change a devices name in which the network detects?
Some routers do not know how to read hostnames from computers properly. There may be no way around this unless a future firmware upgrade fixes the issue.



Something could check would be if the router allows you to delete the connected computers from the list of devices and then disconnect and reconnect the computer to see if it updates the name.