Before I started on the CNET broadband beat, I didn't know much about the internet. Like most people, I only thought about my internet when it wasn't working. As I started learning more about how the ...

Standing in the networking aisle of an electronics retail store, anybody could mistakenly pick up a router instead of an Ethernet switch or vice versa. The product packages as well as the devices ...

Our life is surrounded by internet services and it’s hard to imagine not being connected to the web one way or another. It’s also worth thinking about technologies such as Wi-Fi and Ethernet, which ...

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When you sign a contract with an internet provider, they'll typically send you a modem and a router in the mail. But which is which? And how are they different? A modem and a router work in tandem ...

I'm a tech journalist and author from Gloucestershire, UK. Despite faster and more capable Wi-Fi technologies, there's still no substitute for the stability, range, and in many cases, performance, of ...