Most home-office networks start with a PC, a router, and a modem. But when a small single-user network grows into a larger multiuser network, your original Wi-Fi router can run out of free ethernet ...

Over the last couple of months, I've been spending some time using Netgear's Insight network management platform along with some Wi-Fi 6 hardware. It's been interesting moving from an unmanaged (but ...

The new Firewalla Purple SE is an affordable version of the company's Purple model but optimised for slower networks. Last year, I looked at the Firewalla Purple, a tiny device that sits on a home or ...

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If you want stuff that just works, you can either just use basic gigabit switches or get a bit fancier with simple managed ones for things like VLAN support so you can have wireless access points with ...

Administrators typically perform a wide variety of maintenance tasks, including backing up data, archiving old data, cleaning up shared drives, updating and patching software, and various other chores ...

H ome Assistant is a powerful self-hosting platform for connecting all your smart home devices. I'm talking about speakers, ...

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My home and home lab network are a mess. Over the years, connecting my lab's physical and virtual machines (VMs), SAN, NAS, and other projects using various network switches, and routers have become a ...