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TROUBLESHOOT YOUR SETUP

YOUR NETWORK CAN be neatly divided into two zones: inside and outside. The outside refers to the wider internet, delivered to your home through your phone or cable connection, while the inside is where all your networked devices reside — whether they’re connected using Wi-Fi or Ethernet cabling. Bridging the two is your modem-router, which does the hard work of managing the connections between devices.

When it comes to troubleshooting your network connection, therefore, you have three major points where problems tend to occur: your Mac or

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