Routers and network switches aren't the same hardware—depending on your setup, you may need both.

Whether it's performance, security, or privacy, an aftermarket router always wins ...

With each passing year, hardware devices grow less dependent on proprietary components and more reliant on open source technologies. Network routers are among the main beneficiaries of this trend, ...

Researchers at MIT’s CSAIL research lab might help future network hardware better keep pace with ever-increasing network data demands. Where typical network router hardware directing traffic in larger ...

Linksys has partnered with Rivet Networks, the company behind Killer Networking products, to incorporate the latter's Killer Prioritization Engine into the former's new WRT32X gaming edition router.

In its first iteration, the Skydog Wi-Fi router wraps state-of-the-art Web-based management tools in old-fashioned hardware. The Skydog Wi-Fi router suffers from bipolar disorder. It’s blessed with ...

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 ...

SDN is often thought of as the abstraction of the networking control plane, or the system that decides where traffic flows across a network, from the networking data plane, which is the system that ...

WiFi routers have come a long way from the days of 802.11b. With WiFi-6 on the horizon, coupled with the influx of whole home coverage through Mesh WiFi systems, ASUS has thrown their unassuming, yet ...

Antivirus firm Bitdefender unveiled a hardware security appliance for home networks Tuesday that aims to protect devices by scanning network traffic to detect and block potential security threats. The ...

Rock-solid networking is too important for gamers to ignore these days. If you’re still struggling with dropped connections, slowdowns, or dead zones, it's time to reassess your equipment and consider ...