CNET editor Dong Ngo points you in the general direction of how to access your home network remotely using a Dynamic DNS service. Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since ...

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 ...

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, ...

It’s the most irritating scenario: You set up your router in your new house or apartment, and your wifi is working flawlessly, until you find your downloads (or ...

The Internet has evolved from a small, well controlled, and trusted network, into a gigantic, loosely controlled, and highly uncooperative infrastructure of astonishing scale and complexity. Not only ...

Simply put, computer networking is the study of how computers can be linked to share data. The concept of connecting computers dates back to the 1960s, when the Department of Defense led the first ...

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 ...

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 ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. The idea of mesh networking has been around for several years. However, we didn't start seeing the term pop up on wifi routers and devices until ...