The three devices commonly used for linking components together on a network are hubs, switches and routers. Though similar in function they differ in capability and utilization. Hubs and switches ...

Forum visitor mustbjones needs a little gentle understanding in regard to routers and hubs. He or she writes: My house is wired with three Ethernet drops fed by the three ports on my router. I got a ...

A couple of quick questions. What is the difference between the two. I have 3 PC's here at the house. I want to be able to move & copy files between the 3. I have a cable modem hooked up to a Netgear ...

I finished my basement last year and ran Ethernet cables everywhere — over a dozen drops total. My Ubiquiti Dream Machine had been handling everything on the network side without complaint. Internet ...

I have a small business network that’s been in place for many years, and we’re finally getting around to a long overdue replacement of a dozen or so old desktop computers. The technician doing 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 ...

Scientific American presents Tech Talker by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. Computers talk to each other and to the web in many different ...

In the computer networking world, the three most ubiquitous pieces of equipment are modems, routers, and switches. These are used everywhere from the datacenter hosting Google to the internet ...