Routers and network switches aren't the same hardware—depending on your setup, you may need both.

Trisha Jandoc was an associate writer at CNET covering broadband and everything related to home internet. She graduated from St. John's University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a focus on ...

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 ...

So lets start with the basics. Many of you might already know this but it is worth recapping the different hardware pieces that make up ip networks. We all know what this does. It secures your network ...

It’s annoying when you run out of Ethernet ports on your router. That, or when you have a home entertainment center and want wired connections for all your devices, but you don’t want to string a ...

A network switch is a small hardware device that links multiple computers together within one local area network, wide area network and different network topology. Network switches work at Data Link ...

Switch A just has a list of every MAC on every port (up to it's memory limit), so it just sees switch B on port #25 as any other port, just with a lot more MAC addresses. There is nothing special ...

The process of troubleshooting your network involves a methodology that starts with cabling and works through the OSI model to the application layer. The network devices have a network cable that ...