The USB 3.0 ports can deliver better performance than USB 2.0 ports. Most routers struggle to power large, power-hungry HDDs ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The SSID, or Service Set Identifier, of a wireless network is the public name that identifies the network for other devices. You can run two routers with the same SSID to increase the range of your Wi ...

One option that’s easy to overlook is remote management of the router. This allows you (or anyone with your credentials) to ...

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 ...

One type of electronic device to especially avoid is the microwave, which emits a strong signal in the 2.4GHz band, the same wireless band your router operates in. Be careful not to stick your router ...