As Internet-based communications become increasingly mission-critical, non-deterministic network performance is no longer acceptable. With fiber-optic build out dramatically increasing and network ...

Ronald Gruia points out this Japan-only broadband router from Yamaha, the 57i, that not only does all the usual router stuff – including IPv6 support, because they do that over there – but also has a ...

Cisco announced more details on its plans to bring IP routers to the world of satellites (or shall we say ‘solar system of satellites’?). At its Cisco Live user conference last week, the company said ...

Your Linksys router uses a dynamic external IP address leased from your ISP. This dynamic address changes based on the time limits of the lease. If your ISP permits, you can prevent the external IP ...

The consolidation of the Internet Protocol as the foundation of most communications services has become indisputable. IP's simplicity, open standards development, relative low cost of deployment and, ...

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 ...

Routers accept data packets and forward them to a list of destinations it knows about. These destinations can be other routers, or the intended destination of a computer communicating through the ...

Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): The Router Status Firefox extension integrates with your router to display your external IP, router uptime, and the load average on your router. Currently this extension ...