I finished my basement last year and ran Ethernet cables everywhere — over a dozen drops total. My Ubiquiti Dream Machine had been handling everything on the network side without complaint. Internet ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

I am looking for some advice / guidance as to how to upgrade my home network (or just set it up better). The current set up is: Hardwired ethernet (9) ports throughout the house One room on upper ...

Once you've identified your needs, it's time to take that next step: actually setting up your network. In this tutorial we'll start with a basic network: two laptops, connected by Ethernet cable to a ...

Happy New Year hive mind! After many months of increasingly hating my wifi doorbell/camera I've pulled the trigger on PoE gear (doorbell, cameras) from Ubiquiti — along with a Cloud Gateway Max and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. If you’ve got a mesh Wi-Fi network set up in your home, you ...

February 7, 2020 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Wireless networking is complicated, no question there. And it’s easy for some people to find themselves with a ...

Your home network’s security is only as good as the configuration of your router or gateway. Leave it open or vulnerable, and you might end up with freeloaders that hog your bandwidth, at best. At ...

When it comes to complexity of network connectors, you have got multiple levels, with a switch (hub) at the bottom and a router at the top. A hub is an astonishingly dumb gadget. It accepts a packet ...