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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Home offices have gotten a lot of attention over the last couple of years. When offices all over the world shut down at the beginning of the pandemic, we were all reminded how important it is to have ...

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 ...