Maintaining your home office tech is just as important as maintaining your yard or your car, but we often zoom right past it in the rush to get the next task done. Don’t do that! We’ve compiled a list ...

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 ...

A router allows multiple computers to use a single modem for Internet connection. When watching videos online, some occasional freezes may occur as the router loses and regains the Internet signal. If ...

Keith Stanley asked if turning off his router will protect his computer from malware. If there’s a router between your cable or DSL modem and your PC, and the router is turned off, you cannot possibly ...

Most network shops have a fair amount of slightly older gear sitting around—small switches, routes from small offices, etc. This type of hardware is always useful to have so that testing and proof of ...

CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He now manages CNET San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D printers ...

I need to test the bandwidth capability of a Router for troubleshooting reasons. It appears the Router is chocking on higher bandwidth downloads as this was suggested for me to try this. I never had ...