March 12, 2024 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google When you use your computer on your home or office network, there's a lot happening in the background. To connect ...

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 ...

Ever look at the back of your router and ask yourself “WHY!?!?” There are only four ethernet ports there. Four. How can anyone live and thrive with such a measly amount of wired network connections?

Coming straight to you from the “Department of Redundant Redundancies” comes this clever hack that turns a Switch into a switch. More specifically, a network switch. Not even a half bad one either, ...

If networks were perfect, you could access them without any configuration. Thankfully, this is usually the case. But if you’ve used the Internet in strange places, you know that some networks require ...

I needed to reorganize the cabling in the server closet so I can reach the network switch after I put the upper deck in place on my model railroad. I need that extra 24" of depth for a turn. My wife ...

Automating an enterprise’s switch upgrade using Python and open-source tools saved time, money, and human errors compared to doing it manually. Automation can make a big difference in repetitive ...

This is not strictly a networking question, but I don't know where this should go, so here it is. I need to secure a small network switch, a dumb 8 port TP Link in metal case, on the vertical face of ...

Mobile Net Switch is your solution. I used to send out auditors for months at a time and most locations had no IT staff to get my staff on the network. Therefore, it meant either sending an IT person ...