To connect to another device on your network and use the internet, you're using two pieces of equipment: a switch and a router. But what do these devices do, and how are they different? To explain ...

Switches work great as an addition on a network that already has a router. This lets the router handle the heavy lifting of ...

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.

In the home or office, the Ethernet switch functions as a central station connecting computers, printers and every other wired device to each other. The switch is also wired to the router and ...

The switch supports Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF). VRRP provides automatic assignment. When a master router fails to connect, the backup router is ...

At the rear of the TP-Link AX1800 VDSL Whole Home Mesh Wi-Fi 6 router there is a VDSL socket and ... [+] four Gigabit Ethernet LAN/WAN ports. There’s a small but important caveat here that you ...