I'm just closing on a new house this week and it has network runs to every room in the house. The runs end in a small patch panel in a closet. There are additional runs that are wired in as phone ...

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

Although wireless is simpler for a lot of people, due to multimedia sharing, bandwidth on a home network, and paranoia about wireless security, you may want to use a hard wired solution for home ...

Ever look at the back of your router and ask yourself “WHY!?!?” There are only four ethernet ports there. Four. How can anyone live and thrive with such a measly amount of wired network connections?

Basically you wire in ethernet cables to one side and have female plugs on other. You put the patch panel on a rack, wire the cables up to one side, and use patch cables to go from the patch panel to ...

In the home or office, the Ethernet switch functions as a central station connecting computers, printers and every other wired device to each other. The switch is also wired to the router and modem to ...

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 ...