A gateway pulls double duty, but a modem and router combo can give you a lot more flexibility and power.

Everyone wants to get online when they get home from work or school, so you may have to change your network usage to avoid ...

In August I posted an Opinion piece by Sam Disraelly: “Beware! Your Optonline Address May Not Be Safe!” In it, the Westport cybersecurity expert warned that because Optonline had 3 known security ...

The wire was an inch thick and caused nothing but problems.

The other day, during the day, my home internet suddenly went down.Today is a side story. Rather than a story about using AI, it is a record of how I 'troubleshot' the cause together with AI on a ...

A teardown of the iPhone 18 Pro Max has confirmed an oddity of the US-based model, in that it uses a Qualcomm modem instead of Apple's C2 chip. Apple's introduction of the iPhone 18 Pro line included ...

They set out to celebrate the power and prestige of an industry that spanned MTV, HBO and Nickelodeon. Now, as cable’s fortunes have waned, the institution is changing, too. “Cable is the future,” one ...

Even for those of us that are quite technically minded, we spend precious little time thinking about the cables that carry our signals and do all the important work we need them to do on a daily basis ...

Your cable modem serves as the vital link between your home network and the internet. It converts the digital signals from your internet service provider (ISP) into a format your devices can ...

Last month saw a surprise ban on almost every new wireless router intended for use in US homes. The FCC ruling described all foreign-made routers as a national security risk. The FCC offered a pathway ...

First look: Google is focusing directly on one of the least protected parts of modern smartphones: the cellular baseband. But the company is not trying to rewrite decades of modem firmware. Instead, ...

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