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Trisha Jandoc was an associate writer at CNET covering broadband and everything related to home internet. She graduated from St. John's University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a focus on ...

It’s annoying when you run out of Ethernet ports on your router. That, or when you have a home entertainment center and want wired connections for all your devices, but you don’t want to string a ...

Modern networks are critical for any enterprise. Networks deliver business applications, multimedia messages and key data to end users around the world. A fundamental element that networks have in ...

So, we have some testing labs and some equipment in those labs that can connect to a PC with a direct network connection - no router or switch, just a loopback cable to the device. Device is ...

I use a simple unmanaged switch to expand my wired Ethernet access without complicating my home network.

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Nothing is more frustrating than trying to get a balky network connection up and running. Everything looks fine, you see a link light, and the computer acts as if it is connected to the network.