I changed 4 hidden router settings, and my home Wi-Fi has never been faster ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

Once you are start experimenting, you will see several reasons to keep it plugged in all year-round ...

I see people that have dedicated boxen to be a router/firewall. What is the advantage of this over having say, a linksys BEFSR1 and a personal firewall? Just wondering. Please clarify, are you talking ...

Ok, so here's the situation, it's a 2 story house, a desktop & notebook downstairs in an office, and then at least 3 computers upstairs in separate rooms. Impossible to put wire through floors, so ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated when WPA3 began. Most of us don’t give a second thought to the router that manages our home internet. We assume it’s working ...

Check your Wi-Fi band, perform a speed test, and check bufferbloat to see what you can do to improve your router's performance before buying new hardware.

Fed up with weak Wi-Fi speeds around the house? There are all sorts of issues that can slow a connection down, but one of the most common pitfalls is poor router placement. That goes double or even ...