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

In almost all of our networking reviews we have talked about Quality of Service or QoS. This handy little feature allows you to adjust priority for different types of network traffic. It makes keeping ...

It’s annoying when you run out of Ethernet ports on your router. That, or when you have a home entertainment center and want wired connections for all your devices, but you don’t want to string a ...

I started writing a longer post and realized that a lot of the information about my investigation of my new home’s network may not be interesting to everyone or relevant to my questions so here’s the ...

Trisha Jandoc was an associate writer at CNET covering broadband and everything related to home internet. She graduated from St. John's University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a focus on ...

With industrial Ethernet fast becoming the network of choice to replace the myriad fieldbuses in both the discrete manufacturing and process industries, your choice of products that form your control ...

A network switch is a small hardware device that links multiple computers together within one local area network, wide area network and different network topology. Network switches work at Data Link ...

Sorry if this is a stupid question, I’ve done a lot of googling and searched this forum but I know that doesn’t mean the question hasn’t been asked and answered before. Setup: Orbi RBK53 system (1 ...

I have often wondered why manufacturers of Ethernet switches severely restrict the number of SPAN/port-monitoring sessions they allow to be configured. I can only assume that they are limited because ...