The devices connected to your router battle for bandwidth like thirst-crazed beasts jostling for access to a receding watering hole. You can’t see the melee, but you can feel its impact. Without ...

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 ...

Whether you're setting up a new router or looking to get the best speeds from an old one, it's important to understand which settings have an impact on network traffic speeds. When you're configuring ...

Quality of Service is far more important than the name even suggests ...

Several weeks ago, I finally tackled a long-delayed and much-needed hardware swap. As is usually the case with things I procrastinate, it ended up not being nearly as difficult (nor taking nearly as ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

Frustrated by slow Wi-Fi? Before blaming your provider, explore your router's settings. Optimizing wireless channels, ...

We mentioned last time that, as more and more application traffic (including voice) joins IP networks, the ability of enterprises to get their arms around quality of service provisioning and ...

Knowing how to install and configure a router in the best way never hurts. Therefore, here we give you step by step instructions on how to properly connect your router, change Internet and Wi-Fi ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Cisco Systems Inc. has added a new feature to its IOS software that automatically establishes and executes quality-of-service (QoS) policies in Catalyst switch and certain router ...