Home Wi-Fi has quietly become the weakest link in many fast internet plans, with video calls freezing and game sessions lagging even when the modem itself is fine. For a growing number of people, the ...

Every so often, we get questions from people who plan to install Ethernet cable in their homes. The most frequent question we get is, "what's the difference between Cat 5e and Cat 6 cable, and which ...

Cat5 cables were the best option for wired networking (also called Ethernet) for a long time. But since the release of Cat6, that's changed. Cat6 is now considered the minimum standard for networking, ...

After discovering that a single Cat5 cable was bottlenecking some devices on my network to 90 Mbps while the rest of my setup ran at gigabit speeds, I went deep into learning what actually makes one ...

It goes against basically every fiber of my being to think of doing such a thing as "copper is king" in my world, but I figured it doesn't always hurt to try new things. Especially given the cost ...

Just moved home and the new place does not have Ethernet drops in each room (living room and two bedrooms). What it does have are phone and ISDN sockets. Today I tried opening them as well as the ...