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 ...

Are there any routers out there that have a 2.5gb WAN port and also 2.5gb LAN ports? I have faster than gigabit internet at my place. Wanted to take advantage of it via wire to my desktop. Thanks!

When you open that router box for the first time, all the different cables and ports can feel intimidating. Even the instruction manual might read like a foreign language. Fortunately, you’re not the ...

At my university, we have an OC3 backbone. Anyway, my computers(700MHZ 15 inch iMacG4 and 1.25GHZ PowerMac G4 MDD) are severly bandwidth limited because I purchased a Netgear MR814 router with a slow, ...

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 ...

Pablo Brontvain has a secret: Every so often a wide area network link that connects the systems administrator’s employer, HR Real Estate Management, to a bevy of blue-chip clients fails. No one except ...