Connecting to a wireless network is typically accomplished through the user of an intermediary, such as a router. In the past, leasing an Internet account began with the hard wiring of a desktop ...

A router's wide area network (WAN) port acts as its gateway to other networks, providing an interface for the router to send outgoing traffic over. Computers should not be connected to a router's WAN ...

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

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

This Cisco Systems 7500 router was used between 1994 and 2001 in the first Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX). For most of its active life, this server was located in the Palo Alto Internet Exchange, ...

first off, my statistics. <BR><BR>router: befsr41<BR>1st computer: 1600+, linksys network card, kt266a chipset, 512ram, gf3ti200<BR>2nd computer: 1600+ kt266a chipset, onboard LAN, gf2gts-v<BR><BR>the ...