As more applications come onto the local area network (LAN), it is time to look into simple and immediate ways to expand the network’s ability to take on heavier traffic. The argument is simple: More ...

Last week, when ZDNet.com Vice President Stephen Howard-Sarin asked me for some advice on setting up a network for his new home, it got me thinking about the future of home networking. Like many ...

Wireless networking, including cell-based systems and Wi-Fi, are increasingly ubiquitous, but many businesses still use a wired network connection. Some advantages of wired network technology include ...

You don't build a home lab for gaming or lightweight workloads. Most home labs are geared toward specialized use cases, such ...

A local-area network (LAN) connects the computer hardware in a localized area such as an office or home. Typically, LANs use wired connections to link the computers to each other and to a variety of ...

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 ...

In the modern office environment, each worker is equipped with a personal computer with its own processor and multiple disk drives. The computer may be free-standing (very much the exception these ...

Leading LAN networking technology also strikes gold in MANs, WANs, and SANs. Calling ethernet a success story is the understatement of the year. Ethernet is about as ubiquitous as you can get.

Wake-on-LAN is an Ethernet networking standard that allows a properly configured network computer to be turned on or awakened by a network message. In this post, we will provide comprehensive ...