To easily and effectively manage your home network, transparency is key. This could be why one of the most popular features of the new home network software, Network Magic 5.1, is the detailed map. It shows every computer and device connected to your router which enables a home network, so you can view -- at a glance -- which devices are connected and what you can do with them. The map, rendered in a 3-D view, shows all of your connected devices on your home network arrayed around the router -- which connects your network to your service provider (and the Internet). It provides a great way to visualize your entire network, including every computer, printer, attached game station, computer-enabled television and telephony device -- and what tasks you can accomplish with them. When you add new devices to your network, they’re added to your Network Magic map automatically.
The map’s not just a visual representation of your network, however; it also allows you to make changes to devices. For example, clicking a computer allows you to change its name and view alerts specific to that computer. From the Network Magic map, you can set up network reports and control Internet access. You can also print out device details, which really come in handy if you need to discuss your network with technical support reps or tech gurus. Before they give advice, techies typically want a complete and detailed picture of your network. It’s so much easier to print it out quickly from a central computer than going from device to device for IP addresses!And finally there’s point-and-click control for printer sharing! Clicking the icon for a printer on the map allows you to share (or stop sharing) the printer, view the print queue and printer details. Walking thumb drives to the one printer-enabled computer on your network is a thing of the past (about time).See all of your computers and devices in a dynamic visual map, make changes to your configuration, and print device details from one location. Be immediately notified by device specific alerts to help you solve network problems! Get with the network map, and you’ll be ready to take control of your home networking destiny!Join us on Twitter or Facebook for more conversations around the home network.
Home Network Map from Network Magic
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nice post. Thanks for sharing..regardsPhotogrammetry and remote sensing“
Two comments:1) It states that I don’t have antispyware. Well it can’t see everything. I have Norton 360 Premier Version 3 on all machince and it has that.2) One of the laptops that goes in and out of the house crashed and I am reloading everything and it doesn’t even want to go back onto it.Helpful yes at times with machine that you are watching with kids around. Friendly no in terms of seeing everything on the machines and a pain to get back on a machine that crashes. That is if you can get it back on.
My Software will not detect my router, therefore I can not see anything beyond the router. I have tried it on several networks and it does not see any Linksys routers, WRT300N, WRT160N, or older WRT54G.
Is the pure networks site down? I purchased Network Magic From Cisco and the product does not work I cannot access the activation server I am connected tot he internet but it tells me I am not so what gives?
How do I buy a Network Magic CD?
I was just wondering if my Linksys WRT160N Router works seamlessly with Mac computers?
I have tried to print out the daily Computer use reports generated by CISCO Network Magic but the print out always comes out totally messed up (only a portion of the report is printed out and at times just a blank page). Its very frustrating.
I have a Linksys WRT300N wireless router, which was working fine until I installed
etwork magic”". Every day or so I have to unplug the power for 10 seconds on the router to get it to connect to the internet. Unfortunately the router is in the basement and it is a pain to do this all the time. Matter of fact I replaced my netgear router for the same reason.”
What do the connection lines on the network map mean? I see all devices connected to the router with a solid line, except for one which is connected with broken lines
I successfully installed Network Magic on 3 of the 4 PCs in my home network. The 4th PC however was running the 64 bit version of Windows 7. Right after a Windows update and initialization, that required a re-boot the PC continued to crash (blue screen of death). I noticed that the crash came the moment the network card tried to detect the network. I couldn’t uninstall the program even in safe mode. I thought perhaps something got corrupted so I restored from a setpoit prior to installing Cisco’s Network Magic.I reinstalled Network Magic and everything seemed to be working fine … until a Windows 7 critical update was downloaded and installed. I had to go back to the same setpoint restore to get rid of the continual rebooting.I’ve sent a query/comment to customer service asking for help but got the usual ‘you’re a dummy’ response telling me to uninstall/reinstall the software. Of course the PC that is having the problem is the one my grandson is most likely to jump on and use.I would recommend looking for a different program if you’re running the 64 bit version of Windows 7.