Whenever you see a box with a few Ethernet ports, it’s either referred to as a router, or a switch, sometimes people will even use the word “hub”! Fortunately, it’s simpler than it may seem. A router ...

It's been almost a year since many of us started working from home, and it doesn't look like that's going to change anytime soon. In previous Jason Squared shows, Jason Cipriani and I have talked ...

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I use a simple unmanaged switch to expand my wired Ethernet access without complicating my home network.

An Ethernet switch is a switch-type hub used when building a network with a wired connection via Ethernet, and is also called a switching hub. The switching function reads the destination address in ...

Modern networks are critical for any enterprise. Networks deliver business applications, multimedia messages and key data to end users around the world. A fundamental element that networks have in ...

Although wireless is simpler for a lot of people, due to multimedia sharing, bandwidth on a home network, and paranoia about wireless security, you may want to use a hard wired solution for home ...

I recently moved into a new home office, and with that came connecting all sorts of cables to a few computers. I had a router with an attached USB for my home media server, an Ethernet switch, and ...