LAN parties are great events if done right; you get a bunch of people together that are bent on killing each other in a virtual sort of way. But the problem is, how do you go about getting the right ...

In almost all of our networking reviews we have talked about Quality of Service or QoS. This handy little feature allows you to adjust priority for different types of network traffic. It makes keeping ...

With the Linksys 52-Port Managed PoE+ Gigabit Switch (LGS552P) ($1,1,49.99), Linksys lives up to its reputation for making premium small-to-mid-size business networking hardware. If its 52 ports weren ...

During COVID, I took the opportunity to hardwire my house with Cat6 ethernet cable. The gear I have is a Unifi 24-port managed gigabit switch, I rolled my own pfSense router on a Seeed Odyssey device, ...

I have a confession to make: While I’ve been singing the praises of 802.11ac Wi-Fi routers for more than two years, I have personally been making do with an old 802.11n model. This weekend, I finally ...

The set up is a little weird. I won't get into why, but the PCs are spread all over the house and the switch and router are not physically anywhere near each other. I have run a lot of cat 5e and cat ...