Beginner’s Guides

If you want a consistent and reliable way of being able to access your home network from anywhere in the world, you need to have dynamic DNS in place.

Many people will not realize it, but the router can be considered one of the most important devices you have in your home. Here are 13 ways to keep it safe and secure.

Setting up port forwarding allows you to make a device on your home network available to others on the Internet despite sitting behind a router’s firewall. Here is how to set it up.

Windows comes with some incredibly useful networking commands that are powerful, yet very easy to use and access from the command prompt, also referred to as cmd.

We often see Internet speeds quoted alongside deals from lots of different Internet service providers, but do you know exactly what they mean?

It is a very straightforward process to test your home network speed; all you need is a device with a web browser.

One of the features you will often see advertised when comparing routers is MU-MIMO technology, but what is it exactly and how does it benefit your home network?

Generally, using a wired Ethernet cable over W-Fi offers faster speeds and lower latency. Wi-Fi technology and hardware has advanced over the years, but has Ethernet, and does the type of Ethernet cable used really limit speed?

When looking at a network switch, you may notice a single port that looks slightly different from the rest. This is likely to be the uplink port.

A wireless access point is used for extending the coverage of the Wi-Fi signal in your home. They are a piece of networking hardware that facilitates the connection between individual devices and your local area network.

Patch panels are commonly used in enterprise networks, but not so much in home networks. Is there are reason for this, and will having a patch panel provide any benefits to a home network setup?