When you use your computer on your home or office network, there's a lot happening in the background. Here's the difference between a switch and a router and how they work together.

Without getting bogged down in too much detail, a network switch is a box that you connect to your router. On that box are a range of ethernet ports. And you can plug more things into those ...

Michael Brown. The Linksys SE4008 gigabit switch is designed to sit perfectly beneath the Linksys WRT1900AC Wi-Fi router. But then Linksys dropped the WRT switch at my door.

If you're upgrading to a faster, stronger wireless router, don't chuck your older Wi-Fi box.With the magic of DD-WRT, you can turn your older wireless router into a range-expanding Wi-Fi repeater ...