Are you confused about the difference between a hub, a router, and a switch? You’re not alone! These networking devices may seem similar, but they serve different purposes and play distinct roles in ...

While buying a switch for a home network is usually a simple matter of buying the cheapest one with a known brand, choosing one for a business network, regardless of its size, is a more complicated ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

The TP-Link Deco line offers Wi-Fi 7 at a reasonable price, and the BE68 is a tri-band unit with 10Gbps Ethernet, wired ...

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 ...

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, ...

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By putting optics in silicon, CPO promises dramatic boosts in speed while lowering power requirements, if it can meet ...