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, ...

One small open-source tool brought clarity to my entire home network.

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 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 ...

Strong signal bars hid a deeply unreliable connection.

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

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 ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

Network-attached storage is the most versatile way to store data, but that's just one of the many benefits of a NAS device. We've tested the top models: See which will work best for your home or small ...