Stop buying new APs.

Your home network’s security is only as good as the configuration of your router or gateway. Leave it open or vulnerable, and you might end up with freeloaders that hog your bandwidth, at best. At ...

Whether it's an older router you have lying around or the current one you're using, there are a lot of surprising features you may not be aware of.

Network security sounds like something that would concern an IT manager at a big company, but even ordinary home users have good reasons not to leave their small home networks to the wind. It’s about ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

Researchers have found that the extra wireless network you set up for visitors may not isolate devices the way router makers ...

Everyone in the networking industry seems to fall into one of two camps: those that have used server-based routing software and those that have no idea such a thing exists. Now a solution called Free ...

If you have updated your smartphone in the past year or two, the chances are it uses the latest Wi-Fi 6 standard. This new, faster way of connecting to Wi-Fi is excellent for boosting speed and can ...

We've still got weeks to go in the school year and Wi-Fi bandwidth is at a premium in my house. That's why I'm still messing around with my network, trying to find the golden bullet that will give me ...

It’s vital, now that so many of us are working from home at least some of the time, to have good Wi-Fi. During the day you’re joining Zoom calls; in the evening you’re trying to stay entertained with ...