Whenever you see a box with a few Ethernet ports, it’s either referred to as a router, or a switch, sometimes people will even use the word “hub”! Fortunately, it’s simpler than it may seem. A router ...

Historically, data networks have been built using some form of a hub-and-spoke design mainly because that design reflected the natural traffic flow. One variant of this design has branch offices ...

I have been brought in on a part time basis to a relatively small company to do some IT work. The problem is that the company has a scattering of small hubs and switches plugged into wall ports, some ...

September 30th, 1980 is the day when Ethernet was first commercially introduced, making it exactly forty years ago this year. It was first defined in a patent filed by Xerox as a 10 Mb/s networking ...

With Ethernet turning 50 this year, Ars is resurfacing this feature on the development and evolution of Ethernet that was originally published in 2011. Although watching TV shows from the 1970s ...

As Mac users, we know the truth: style is almost as important as substance. We’re no beige-boxers, blindly buying computers on low-price alone. It’s gotta look good. The same goes for our accessories.