I cancelled my home phone line. Our house has phone jacks everywhere, but not many ethernet jacks. Can the phone wiring be repurposed for home networking rather than telephony? The house was built in ...

My first post here. I would like to use ethernet rather than wifi in our house and was looking into using the preinstalled phone jacks in various rooms around the house as a possible way to avoid ...

What was once one of the greatest technological innovations — the landline telephone — is quickly disappearing from homes, leaving unsightly evidence of its past prominence. If you’re one of the more ...

Although cutting-edge technology reaps publicity, the real world often runs on modest hardware that's just “good enough” for home automation, alarm systems, and equipment-monitoring applications.