The average home now has dozens of networked devices, from computers to smart devices and streaming boxes. Each of these comes with different considerations about how they use the network, and that's ...

It's no surprise that Linux makes a great router and firewall. A lesser-known fact is that you also can use Linux as an Ethernet bridge and VLAN switch, and that these features are similarly powerful, ...

To begin, we must have a more formal definition of what a LAN is. LAN stands for local area network. Hubs and switches usually are thought of as participating in a single LAN. Normally, if you connect ...

I have a connection coming into the house, then into a Synology router. I have 2 VLANS set up, the default one and a 2nd one called Secure. I don't have Ethernet run in my house but we have 6 coax ...