Connecting to a wireless network is typically accomplished through the user of an intermediary, such as a router. In the past, leasing an Internet account began with the hard wiring of a desktop ...

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 ...

The two major components in a small computer network are a modem and wireless router. The modem is wired to the Internet via the cable company's coaxial cable, the telephone company's DSL phone line, ...

This Cisco Systems 7500 router was used between 1994 and 2001 in the first Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX). For most of its active life, this server was located in the Palo Alto Internet Exchange, ...

If you own devices with wired-only (Ethernet) connections and your router or modem is too far away or your wireless network doesn’t cover enough area in your home, an old router can solve your ...

A top-down exploration of networking using the 5-layer model and the TCP/IP stack. HTTP, FTP, DNS, BSD Sockets, concurrent servers, checksums, reliable transport with stop-and-wait, go-back-n, ...

By switching to, for example, Google's public DNS servers you could experience less waiting for pages to start loading, and ...

If your internet is slow and you feel like you've tried everything, you're in luck: I've got one more fix you might not have tried. Changing your DNS settings on either your Wi-Fi router or your ...

In an upcoming blog I expect to write about configuring a home router, which requires logging on to it. This, in turn, requires knowing the IP address of the router. Non-techies typically don’t know ...