We’re at an awkward stage as the age of network-streamed multimedia matures. Broadband and cell providers have only recently realized the public’s enormous appetite for streaming video, VoIP, and the ...

Quality of service (QoS) has been a feature of routers for a number of years while security functionality is also quickly becoming a vital component in the router design process. Until now, QoS and ...

Several weeks ago, I finally tackled a long-delayed and much-needed hardware swap. As is usually the case with things I procrastinate, it ended up not being nearly as difficult (nor taking nearly as ...

The devices connected to your router battle for bandwidth like thirst-crazed beasts jostling for access to a receding watering hole. You can’t see the melee, but you can feel its impact. Without ...

The consolidation of the Internet Protocol as the foundation of most communications services has become indisputable. IP's simplicity, open standards development, relative low cost of deployment and, ...