As I've begun to build up my home network with more and more devices, I've needed to take careful considerations in the deployment of every part of it. Along the way, I've made plenty of mistakes.

There's a pretty good chance you have some old piece of networking equipment somewhere, whether it be an old switch, router, or firewall. Discarding it is one option, but it's the least economical.

Parks Associates’ Consumer Electronics Dashboard, derived from quarterly consumer surveys of 8,000 US internet households, reveals 80 per cent of US internet households own a home network router. The ...

Firmware is the low-level software programmed into a device's read-only memory, responsible for controlling its hardware functions. In the context of routers and networking equipment, firmware ...