Connecting to the internet seems simple. You hop on your Wi-Fi, load up Facebook, and boom; you're connected! But when something goes wrong—or it's time to upgrade ...

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 ...

When you use your computer on your home or office network, there's a lot happening in the background. To connect to another device on your network and use the internet, you're using two pieces of ...

IIRC, a regular hub is one single broadcast domain and all trafic is broadcast to all ports. The difference being in that a switching hub is still one broadcast domain, but only forwards packets to ...

QUESTION: I have several computers at home and cable modem high-speed Internet service. At the moment, I run the cable modem into a standard wired router for my main home network, which works fine. I ...

When it comes to complexity of network connectors, you have got multiple levels, with a switch (hub) at the bottom and a router at the top. A hub is an astonishingly dumb gadget. It accepts a packet ...