A direct Ethernet line should be faster than a Wi-Fi connection. That's what I thought at least. Downloads were taking forever. Web pages were slow to load. Sometimes, the reason can be a handful of ...

Few things are as frustrating as a computer that refuses to connect to the internet. You’ve rebooted your router, toggled airplane mode, and even sacrificed a coffee break to troubleshoot. Still, no ...

Hallo mighty Ars networking gurus, I need some help with a somewhat complex setup. A client (doctor) has a FritzBox (popular german router) at his office. At home he also has a FB and I have set up a ...

Toggling airplane mode can quickly refresh a weak phone signal by forcing a new network search, though it cannot fix areas ...

If you have ever upgraded your GPU expecting a huge jump in frame rate and only saw a small bump, you already know that hardware alone does not tell the whole story. Something else in your setup is ...

Two identical ports, two different purposes.