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 wireless router comes with default configurations that require attention to improve your security posture. If you don't give them the right attention, you could make it easier for someone to use the ...

By switching to, for example, Google's public DNS servers you could experience less waiting for pages to start loading, and ...

Many computer users don’t realize it, but for most people their internet router is the most important electronic device in their home. It links most of their other devices together and to the world, ...

If your internet is slow and you feel like you've tried everything, you're in luck: I've got one more fix you might not have tried. Changing your DNS settings on either your Wi-Fi router or your ...

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 ...

Network security sounds like something that would concern an IT manager at a big company, but even ordinary home users have good reasons not to leave their small home networks to the wind. It’s about ...

In an upcoming blog I expect to write about configuring a home router, which requires logging on to it. This, in turn, requires knowing the IP address of the router. Non-techies typically don’t know ...