Your internet connection depends on multiple devices working together. Here are the details to help you troubleshoot problems and stay online.

These days, your wireless router is not just your lifeline to the internet, but also to your job. We've hand-tested the top ...

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 ...

A modem and router work in tandem to deliver you an internet connection and then grant access to your various devices.

(CR has detailed tips on router security.) Multiple Ethernet and USB ports make a router more versatile. LAN (local area network) ports are used to connect a computer to the router using an Ethernet ...

The US government is inching closer to banning these routers due to the company's ties to China, according to a recent report ...

Do you like fiddling with computers and fancy the idea of taking on a more advanced project? Then I have a suggestion: Build your own router/firewall. With a router running a more advanced operating ...

But you can get a better home network by upgrading other network devices, or changing some settings on your existing router.

Most of us tend to keep our router or modem always on so that we can be online all the time. But is it safe? Are we trading our privacy for convincing? Should we turn off our computer network when not ...

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 ...

Unlock to see our ratings and compare products side by side The router throughput (speed) of the communications is measured very near the router in an "open space" hallway. For our test, it was 8 feet ...

Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the ...