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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?

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

Hi all, first of all, funnily enough this is my first post since I registered in 2001. Only took 22 years! I have a Windows 10 PC that connects to a wifi router that's pretty far (it's in another ...

If Apple hasn’t yet made the Ethernet network port on your Mac obsolete by not including it, as is the case with most Macs sold today, then it may have accidentally broke the port last week in an OS X ...

Ben Smith is a writer based in Los Angeles, California who has been covering consumer tech for at least five years. He's written thousands of articles for various sites about laptops, tablets, and ...

As an alternative to using regular Ethernet or Wi-Fi to connect more devices to a home network, try the high-speed ZyXel PLA4205 power line adapter. Dong Ngo Former SF Labs Manager, Editor Former CNET ...

It’s annoying when you run out of Ethernet ports on your router. That, or when you have a home entertainment center and want wired connections for all your devices, but you don’t want to string a ...

I needed to reorganize the cabling in the server closet so I can reach the network switch after I put the upper deck in place on my model railroad. I need that extra 24" of depth for a turn. My wife ...

Various users have complained that they cannot launch a Virtual Machine created in Hyper-V Virtual Manager as the Ethernet port failed to allocate resources while connecting to the virtual switch.

Speed up Raspberry Pi Zero tasks with a Waveshare hub offering three USB Type-A ports and 10/100 Ethernet, so Pi projects run smoother, faster ...

The Raspberry Pi Zero has been a wonder since it was first introduced. So much power (and so much fun!) in such a small package. Ah, but there was the problem, too -- such a small package, that it ...