A cryptic name with a simple explanation, and potentially the key to a much better networking experience.

I'm currently running a Netgear WNDR 3700 as my primary wifi router. It supports 802.11a, b, g, and n, and has both 2.4 and 5Ghz bands. Currently, I'm running a g network on the 2.4Ghz band, and an n ...

Neighbors. What can you do about them? To those of us in homes, neighbors are a relatively easily defined group of people. There's the police officer that lives next door, there's the police officer ...

Both the computers report the following wifi networks available: Homenet, Homenet 2; Homenet 2 3. All of them can be connected to and appear to work correctly. The router shows the SSID to be Homenet ...

Wi-Fi contains one glaring flaw: it's vulnerable to hacking. The range of connectivity means people down the hall or across the street can access your network. Even if it's secured with a password, ...

Millions of households still run routers loaded with factory-set usernames, default passwords, and outdated encryption, ...

Businesses can use wireless routers to connect a local area network -- a group of computer devices interconnected to each other and confined to a small area -- to a wide area network without the need ...

May 9, 2014 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Your router is the first line of defense against hackers trying to access all the internet-connected devices in your ...

Netgear's newest WiFi 6 router may not be specifically intended for home use, but with working-from-home looking like it's here to stay for the foreseeable future there's a good reason why you might ...