Your ISP may let you rent your router from them so you can get Internet access, but it may actually be way more money than ...

Guest networks are surprisingly useful.

Does your home have a ton of smart home devices running it? If you do, there's a good chance that you've been out of the house when your internet has gone down and needed a way to quickly reset your ...

It's a familiar scenario: you bought a top-tier Wi-Fi router, yet there's still that one corner of the house where the signal is weak. Even the best routers have their limits, but the signal has to ...

A VPN-enabled router can provide online privacy for any device connected to it. But not all router models allow it. Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering home technology, broadband, and ...

Last time I noted that, for those of us with separate routers and modems, the IP address 192.168.100.1 may provide access to the modem, through the router. In my limited testing, I found this to be ...

Your modem and router are two different devices, but they work as a team to power your home internet connection. If you're just starting out on your search for the best internet provider, it helps to ...

As a rule, it's best to use Cat 6 Ethernet cables. While you may never max out their 10Gbps capacity, Cat 6 isn't very expensive, and will allow you to go above the 1Gbps limit of Cat 5e when hardware ...