The typical small business probably has one or more unmanaged network switches to connect their PCs, servers and storage. While those unmanaged switches may still have value in parts of the network, ...

Network switches come in two different flavors: managed, where you have some interface to configure and monitor the equipment, and unmanaged where the device just does what it is supposed to do and ...

Five years later, I realized that I'd outgrown that setup, and needed to expand things. I didn't want to spend too much at ...

I was considering upgrading the backbone of my home LAN for a while. While I "only" have gigabit broadband, both my PC and server have 2.5 GbE ports, and I figured it was about time I actually made ...

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 ...

It’s annoying when you run out of Ethernet ports on your router. That, or when you have a home entertainment center and want wired connections for all your devices, but you don’t want to string a ...

I'm looking into getting a managed switch to learn how to setup VLANs. Ultimately I want to setup separate VLANs to segregate devices in the future home. Right now I only have a handful of unmanaged ...

Modern networks are critical for any enterprise. Networks deliver business applications, multimedia messages and key data to end users around the world. A fundamental element that networks have in ...

IDEC Corporation has added the SX5E-HU085B 8-port unmanaged industrial Ethernet switch to its product portfolio. This device provides many managed switch features to support the rapidly expanding ...

During COVID, I took the opportunity to hardwire my house with Cat6 ethernet cable. The gear I have is a Unifi 24-port managed gigabit switch, I rolled my own pfSense router on a Seeed Odyssey device, ...