Networking

Reviews

TP-Link powerline adapters review

Extend your network with the AV2000 2-port Gigabit Passthrough Powerline Starter Kit

D-Link AC3200 Ultra tri-band wireless router

Add more bandwidth to your wireless network for 5GHz devices with this beefy router

Lenco PlayConnect wireless music receiver

This device allows you to connect your existing stereo to your home network in order to play content through mobile devices and computers

D-Link Viper Dual Band AC1900 Modem Router (DSL-2900AL)

This tall router provides fast 802.11ac performance, and has useful Cloud and remote features

TP-Link TD-W8980 N600 modem-router

This dual-band ADSL2+ modem-router is reliable and inexpensive

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Networking in pictures

In Pictures: Tour Target's new Internet of Things concept store

The retail giant's connected-home concept store in San Francisco showcases dozens of cool IoT products for the home, but buyers are still on their own.

In Pictures: The top 15 tech companies on the Fortune 500

We scour the F500 list to home in on the largest tech companies gracing the list.

In Pictures: Cisco Live!

Outgoing and incoming Cisco CEOs John Chambers and Chuck Robbins weren’t the only attractions at the annual Cisco event in San Diego this week.

In Pictures: How Cisco's Chambers kept a high profile

Cisco CEO, John Chambers, has rubbed elbows with many business, political and entertainment VIPs during his 20 years at the helm

News about Networking

NBN hooks up 6 million homes and businesses

Some 6 million households and businesses are able to connect to the National Broadband Network, NBN announced this morning.

News Aug 23
Huawei aims to be epicentre of 5G application research

Huawei appears to be seeking to stake out a central co-ordinating role in the evolution of 5G mobile applications.

News Nov 25
Facebook's 100-gigabit switch design is out in the open

Facebook’s 100-gigabit switch design has been accepted by the Open Compute Project, a step that should help to foster an open ecosystem of hardware and software on high-speed networking gear.

News Oct 19
NBN: Labor to offer ‘greater proportion of fibre’, still not sold on FTTN

Labor leader Bill Shorten has offered new hints at the shape of the NBN policy that his party will take to the election.

News Jun 01
NBN: Question marks over copper costs persist

It’s still too early to determine how much effort will be required to whip into shape the elements of Telstra’s copper network that will be used for the National Broadband Network, according to an analysis prepared on behalf of NBN.

News May 31

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Tutorials about Networking

Bugs & Fixes: iPhone fails to pair to Bluetooth device

Last September, a new thread in Apple Support Communities briefly noted that a user was unable to get his iPhone 5 to pair with other Bluetooth devices. As it turned out, he was not alone. Cut to the present: this thread is now 29 pages long, with se...

Tutorials Feb 15
Mobile survival guide: Top tips for staying connected

Picture this: You're sitting down

Tutorials Jan 14
Optimize your router for VoIP and video

We're at an awkward stage as the age of network-streamed multimedia matures. Broadband and cell providers have only recently realized the public's enormous appetite for streaming video, VoIP, and the combination of both.

Tutorials Dec 10
How to pick NAS for any business

Network-attached storage (NAS) can make your business easier to run and more efficient in multiple ways.

Tutorials Nov 05
The ABCs of VoIP

Given the importance of telephone systems, refreshing the technology can be daunting. However, for small and midsized businesses who consider upgrading from a PBX to VoIP, the benefits are clear and, with proper planning, the implementation is not ve...

Tutorials Sep 30

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Features about Networking

Draytek Vigor 2952 SMB router overview

Routers may appear to be a dime a dozen in the consumer space. Many small businesses might be tempted with something like the excellent Linksys EA9500 with its fast WiFi and eight Ethernet ports, but it won’t be suited to many, advanced business need...

Features Feb 27
Set Windows 10's Wi-Fi connections as metered to download forced updates at your own pace

When Microsoft rolls out a new version of Windows, the company always likes to rearrange the furniture a little bit and put old features in new spots. If you're coming to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1, one such feature is the ability to mark a Wi-Fi co...

Features Jul 29
From M2M to IoT: Old industries have to learn new tricks

The Internet of Things may be a new idea, but machines talking to other machines is not.

Features Dec 19
IoT is here and there, but not everywhere yet

The Internet of Things is still too hard. Even some of its biggest backers say so.

Features Aug 14
Microsoft's money pit: Surface has lost $1.2bn

Microsoft has lost more than $1.2 billion so far on its Surface tablet business, an expensive experiment that makes tomorrow's revelations of new hardware an important milestone for the "devices" side of its corporate-refashioning strategy.

Features May 19