When you need to reach a specific device on your home network from the internet side of things, one of the oldest options is ...

Your router's USB port is convenient, but its unreliability makes it susceptible to a potential security risk. Here's the alternative.

The USB port on many routers can turn them into a personal cloud or media hub, but using it safely requires understanding the ...

A router's wide area network (WAN) port acts as its gateway to other networks, providing an interface for the router to send outgoing traffic over. Computers should not be connected to a router's WAN ...

For the past six months, I’ve been using a Linksys BEFW11S4 4-Port Cable/DSL Wireless Router for my home office network and it has been great. Recently, I came across a few additional PCs to play with ...

Whenever you see a box with a few Ethernet ports, it’s either referred to as a router, or a switch, sometimes people will even use the word “hub”! Fortunately, it’s simpler than it may seem. A router ...

As you get more and more Internet-enabled devices, what once seemed like plenty of Ethernet ports on your D-Link router may no longer be sufficient. One option is to switch to wireless for some ...

Taiwanese hardware vendor QNAP urged customers on Monday to disable Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) port forwarding on their routers to prevent exposing their network-attached storage (NAS) devices to ...