For those of you still running network cable all over the house, Of Zen and Computing has a great rundown on how to splice two cables together for extra long length with an Exacto knife and some duct ...

What is a crossover cable used for? The fastest way to connect PCs together, to a router or central switch, is through Ethernet cabling, a standard that’s been in networking installation for years.

Most of us have Ethernet in our homes today. The real backbones of the Internet though, use no wires at all. Optical fibers carry pulses of light across the land, under the sea, and if you’re lucky, ...

Software developer Christian Kohlschutter purchased a Chinese-made 25GbE adapter from Amazon. It's powered by the host, so it only requires a single cable and no additional power adapter. He said it's ...

So we see lots of posts about roll your router via ddwrt, tomato, merlin, etc why not the equivalent for modems? I am thinking this would be ideal to roll into pfsense on a VM Of course I don't know ...

An Ethernet cable lets you physically connect your computer to the internet. Ethernet connections are almost always faster than WiFi connections and are usually more stable. You'll need to connect one ...