Beginner’s Guides

There are many tools and utilities built within your operating system, with the ping command being one of the most useful, especially when it comes to testing and troubleshooting your home network.

If you live in a particularly large home and are looking to connect devices to your network via Ethernet cable instead of using Wi-Fi, you may be asking the question: How far can you run an Ethernet cable?

If you have trouble maintaining a Wi-Fi signal in a certain part of your home, a Wi-Fi repeater is one of several options to help solve this problem.

Mesh Wi-Fi systems are growing in popularity all around the world, but is it good for gaming and will give you an advantage over the competition, or leave you stuck at the bottom of the leaderboard?

2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Wi-Fi gets referenced a lot in the networking world and are often listed as a feature when shopping around for a new router. This begs the question: What is the difference between 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Wi-Fi, and which should you use in your home network?

Many people will choose to leave their devices powered on all the time for convenience, but how much electricity does a computer use if left on, and how much will this end up costing you?

Home network installation does require a few certain tools to allow you to complete the job both effectively and efficiently. Here are 6 of them you should own.

When you have multiple devices and people within the home looking to access the Internet at the same time, each one of them will be consuming part of the bandwidth you have available. So, can you allocate bandwidth?

Power over Ethernet, more commonly referred to as PoE, is a term that you will often see branded on various different networking products, but what exactly is PoE and how does it work?

There are many different words, phrases, and abbreviations that are commonly used when discussing networking so I have compiled a  list of 50 networking terms you should know.

Network Attached Storage is a convenient method of storing large amounts of data that is easily accessible, but how exactly do they work?