By default, the ipconfig command shows basic information about all your computer’s network connections. The IPv4 Address line ...

Your internet service provider (ISP) brings the internet into your home through a modem. A router then converts that signal ...

A vulnerability in Asuswrt, the firmware running on many wireless router models from Asustek Computer, allows attackers to completely compromise the affected devices. Malicious hackers, however, need ...

It's best to pick a router that matches or surpasses your home's square footage. In some scenarios, a mesh system may be ...

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 ...

At WWDC 2019, Apple announced that HomeKit support would be coming to WiFi routers. Not a lot was known about what that would entail, until recently, when new and updated routers with HomeKit ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — It’s 2023, and few things are more annoying than dealing with a WiFi dead zone in your home. The good news is fixing it is easy and, as Consumer Reports explains, doesn’t have to ...

Internet networking involves a lot of alchemy, and I confess to occasionally dropping an eye of newt (or an IP of newt) into a boiling pot to fix problems on my local network. There’s a particular ...

We have a mail server running on an internal address. Our router is configured to forward ports 110 and 25 to this server for incoming and outgoing mail.<BR>For everyone outside the local net it works ...