I am looking for some advice / guidance as to how to upgrade my home network (or just set it up better). The current set up is: Hardwired ethernet (9) ports throughout the house One room on upper ...

You can take all the usual steps to safeguard your home network—change the administrator password, set up a strong and unique password for Wi-Fi access, bump the ...

We have a lot of network experts and enthusiasts here at XDA, and we talk a good bit about how setting up your home network the right way is important. From VLANs for your smart devices, setting up ...

I've noticed a stark contrast between how cafes and hotels share Wi-Fi access with guests as opposed to how my friends do it. Most enterprises usually have a dedicated network for visitors that ...

There are various ways to work together in a network based on Windows 11. The simplest is to set up a shared workgroup, a kind of team of computers with equal rights. The workgroup in Windows 11 ...

I've previously considered buying a NAS but never gotten round to it, especially since units with more than 2 bays seem pretty expensive across the board, and I will probably need more than that in ...

Microsoft wants you to use the cloud, but there are a lot of good options — including trusty old network file sharing and a little-known modern Windows feature. Remember the HomeGroup on Windows 7?