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 ...

At the minute I live in a university flat so have free ethernet access. I use this by having two NICs in my XP machine and using internet connection sharing wizard to give my wife's computer access as ...

Do you like fiddling with computers and fancy the idea of taking on a more advanced project? Then I have a suggestion: Build your own router/firewall. With a router running a more advanced operating ...

For as basic as your firewall/router needs seem to be, I'd just put together a pfSense box so you don't have to keep paying Fortigate for updates. If you wanted to do web filtering and that kind of ...

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 ...