Wi-Fi and Ethernet are some of the most common ways to connect to the internet, but they have their shortcomings. While one requires a lot of wiring and pre-planning, the other creates numerous dead ...

Although watching TV shows from the 1970s suggests otherwise, the era wasn't completely devoid of all things resembling modern communication systems. Sure, the 50Kbps modems that the ARPANET ran on ...

Ethernet is ubiquitous, fast, and simple. You only need two diffpairs (four wires) to establish a 100Mbit link, the hardware is everywhere, you can do Ethernet over long distances easily, and tons of ...

Ethernet’s future is now about much more than the next top speed: The engineers charting a path for the ubiquitous networking protocol are looking at several new versions to serve a variety of ...

Dara Kerr was a senior reporter for CNET covering the on-demand economy and tech culture. She grew up in Colorado, went to school in New York City and can never remember how to pronounce gif. Most ...

Ethernet’s future is now about much more than the next top speed: The engineers charting a path for the ubiquitous networking protocol are looking at several new versions to serve a variety of ...

The Local Area Network (LAN) we know today starts simply, with a switch connecting a computer to the network. But that inevitably gets more complex as you add routers and the occasional firewall to ...