Whether it's an older router you have lying around or the current one you're using, there are a lot of surprising features ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stop buying new APs.

Researchers have found that the extra wireless network you set up for visitors may not isolate devices the way router makers ...

It’s vital, now that so many of us are working from home at least some of the time, to have good Wi-Fi. During the day you’re joining Zoom calls; in the evening you’re trying to stay entertained with ...

While your router might seem like a single-purpose device, you can use its USB port for a variety of cool things. Here are some use cases worth exploring.

There’s a gizmo on the market called a cellular router (or 3G router). This device – as you might suspect – aggregates multiuser LAN traffic and forwards it over a cellular last-mile WAN connection.

That USB port on your router looks useful, but plugging in the wrong device can create security and performance problems ...