Reuse an old router to connect wired-only devices -- like your TV, DVR, or game console -- to your wireless network. Ed Rhee Ed Rhee, a freelance writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is an IT ...

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 ...

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 ...

CNET editor Dong Ngo points you in the general direction of how to access your home network remotely using a Dynamic DNS service. Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since ...

A top-down exploration of networking using the 5-layer model and the TCP/IP stack. HTTP, FTP, DNS, BSD Sockets, concurrent servers, checksums, reliable transport with stop-and-wait, go-back-n, ...

In an upcoming blog I expect to write about configuring a home router, which requires logging on to it. This, in turn, requires knowing the IP address of the router. Non-techies typically don’t know ...

The US government is inching closer to banning these routers due to the company's ties to China, according to a recent report ...

Most of us tend to keep our router or modem always on so that we can be online all the time. But is it safe? Are we trading our privacy for convincing? Should we turn off our computer network when not ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. The idea of mesh networking has been around for several years. However, we didn't start seeing the term pop up on wifi routers and devices until ...

Simply put, computer networking is the study of how computers can be linked to share data. The concept of connecting computers dates back to the 1960s, when the Department of Defense led the first ...