Strong signal bars hid a deeply unreliable connection.

My smart devices were putting everything at risk. This easy setup protected my home network.

Dhruv Bhutani has been writing about consumer technology since 2008, offering deep insights into the Android smartphone landscape through features and opinion pieces. He joined Android Police in 2023, ...

Check your incoming Internet before fooling with your network. There are simple steps you can take to speed up your Wi-Fi network. To get the most from your network, you'll need to fine-tune its ...

On my home network, a certain website (actually its probably a domain) refuses to load. Everything else works just fine. I'm on Comcast in the USA. The website in question is a hosting server I ...

My current home network is relatively complex: I share a home with my SO and between the two of us we have some 30 client devices running all the major OSes (Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Linux) as ...

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 ...

I've moved around Los Angeles a lot over the years, and during that time I've had to deal with a variety of internet issues. Whether it was crawling internet speeds or my connection dropping out in ...

If you run Plex, Nextcloud, or remote backups, your NAS is exposed. Here’s the safer way to do it without exposing your data.

Recently, when I started renovating my home, I knew it was the perfect time to rebuild my smart home from scratch. I’ve been on the smart home bandwagon for years, but cobbling together IoT products ...