Routers and network switches aren't the same hardware—depending on your setup, you may need both.

If you're troubleshooting some network problems in your office and some computers are connected to a router, you may need the IP address of each computer, its primary DNS server and the default router ...

Lesser-known fixes for well-known problems ...

Tired of being the only wireless network in your apartment building without a clever name like “Wu-tang LAN” or “Bill Wi the Science Fi”? Or maybe you want to make your network password more secure so ...

Linksys routers feature a physical button on the back of the device that is used to reboot, reset and restore its factory default settings. The router's Web-based control panel does not natively ...

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 ...

Reuse an old router to connect wired-only devices -- like your TV, DVR, or game console -- to your wireless network. Ed Rhee Ed Rhee, a freelance writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is an IT ...

Recently a client asked me to write a whitepaper about IP address management. At first the assignment seemed completely routine. But as I began looking at the details I realized that I was going to ...