What's the difference between a modem and a router? Learn how these two devices work together to connect your home to the ...

Routers and network switches aren't the same hardware—depending on your setup, you may need both.

Network security sounds like something that would concern an IT manager at a big company, but even ordinary home users have good reasons not to leave their small home networks to the wind. It’s about ...

I replaced my ISP router , but it wasn't the magical fix I thought it would be ...

Your home network’s security is only as good as the configuration of your router or gateway. Leave it open or vulnerable, and you might end up with freeloaders that hog your bandwidth, at best. At ...

Like many of you (probably), I have a home network with many devices on it (probably ~100). Some devices are wired (ethernet) and some are wireless. Poor performance has been encountered, due to a ...

Once you've identified your needs, it's time to take that next step: actually setting up your network. In this tutorial we'll start with a basic network: two laptops, connected by Ethernet cable to a ...

Last week we published a guide to "Mac-friendly" wireless routers. Rather than addressing reliability or performance concerns, the article attempted to discern which wireless router manufacturers ...

If the Windows Network Diagnostics report displays the message The connection between your access point, router, or cable modem and the Internet is broken after you run the Internet Connections ...

Most people don’t give a second thought to their routers. This lack of know-how puts a lot of households in a dangerous position. The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has ...