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 ...

Everyone in the networking industry seems to fall into one of two camps: those that have used server-based routing software and those that have no idea such a thing exists. Now a solution called Free ...

When you use your computer on your home or office network, there's a lot happening in the background. To connect to another device on your network and use the internet, you're using two pieces of ...

When it comes to looking for a Wi-Fi router, it's likely that you won't really know much about what to look for, as 71% of the country uses the equipment provided by their internet provider. Routers ...

Most home Wi‑Fi problems do not come from the internet provider, they come from the way the router is configured inside the ...

Like all AC1900 routers, data is transmitted on three spatial streams. The four removable, customized and adjustable antennas on the WRT1900AC router provide antenna diversity by enabling the router ...

Commerce Department proposes TP-Link router ban over Chinese security risks. Learn how this potential prohibition could ...

It’s vital, now that so many of us are working from home at least some of the time, to have good Wi-Fi. During the day you’re joining Zoom calls; in the evening you’re trying to stay entertained with ...

There’s a gizmo on the market called a cellular router (or 3G router). This device – as you might suspect – aggregates multiuser LAN traffic and forwards it over a cellular last-mile WAN connection.

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