Connecting two computers with a specific type of Universal Serial Bus (USB) cable allows you to transfer files or other data directly from one machine to another. Transfer speeds are limited to ...

Crossover network cables used to be required when creating a computer-to-computer network, but most newer computer network adapters perform the crossover automatically.

A network card (also called a network adapter, network interface card, or NIC for short) acts as the interface between a computer and a network cable. The purpose of the network card is to prepare, ...

If another computer, smartphone, tablet, or smart TV can go online on the same network, it should be good enough for the Windows laptop or PC in question. Thus, when you see a network cable is ...

Some (many?) HDMI cables can also carry Ethernet over HDMI. The main use seems to be to provide internet connection to a smart TV from a cable modem box. Currently I have an ethernet-USB adaptor ...

Socket set The net-powered PC has come out of a project to create specifications for powering almost any kind of computer hardware through Ethernet cables. Ethernet is the name given to the most ...