A modem and router work in tandem to deliver you an internet connection. Even if the modem and router are combined in the same hardware, they serve distinct functions. The modem communicates with the ...

A router's wide area network (WAN) port acts as its gateway to other networks, providing an interface for the router to send outgoing traffic over. Computers should not be connected to a router's WAN ...

If you've got an old printer gathering dust because it doesn't have Wi-Fi, you can bring it back to life by connecting it to ...

I've always ended up needing to install something like openwrt on my routers. I'm not particularly interested in continuing to need to do that as this seems like an obvious feature people might need ...

A fast and stable WiFi network is vitally important, especially if you work from home a few days a week. Add in the hours you spend online for entertainment, financial transactions, telehealth visits, ...

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 ...

In all reality, you really don't want your router to also be your DNS. It just doesn't have the horsepower to handle the traffic of even a small network without a high likelyhood of causing the router ...

When it comes to complexity of network connectors, you have got multiple levels, with a switch (hub) at the bottom and a router at the top. A hub is an astonishingly dumb gadget. It accepts a packet ...