I see people that have dedicated boxen to be a router/firewall. What is the advantage of this over having say, a linksys BEFSR1 and a personal firewall? Just wondering. Please clarify, are you talking ...

Don't plug any old cable into a random Ethernet port on your router. Depending on your model, there's likely an ideal way to ...

Banana Pi has released yet another single-board computer (SBC) that it has designed to be used as a home router. To recap, the company presented the BPI-R4 (curr. $138.99 on Amazon) in November with ...

The LinkStar-H68K is a tiny computer that’s positioned as a router thanks to its four Ethernet interfaces. But it’s also basically a rugged mini PC that could be used for network-attached storage, ...

I got a new router (Asus) because my old one is getting flaky and requiring frequent reboots. My problem is, I have one desktop that connects via wifi and I can't get it to see the SSIDs of the new ...

Isolating these devices from the main network minimizes chaos and boosts security.