Every month, when your Comcast bill arrives, chances are there's a charge included for renting the combination modem/router you use for internet access. It's $10 a month, and that means you are ...

Each month, when your Comcast bill comes due, many of you pay a monthly fee for the device that provides internet access in your homes. Rental for what’s known as the Xfinity Gateway typically runs ...

Don't be intimidated by your home networking hardware. Internet access is important for everyone to stay connected. But most people rely on technicians and their more tech-savvy friends and family to ...

Last time I noted that, for those of us with separate routers and modems, the IP address 192.168.100.1 may provide access to the modem, through the router. In my limited testing, I found this to be ...

A computer screen showing a video call. - Seb_ra/Getty Images Every home is connected nowadays, which requires having access to the internet. This is through an Internet Service Provider (ISP), along ...

A router is your gateway to the wider world, allowing you to instantly connect your desktop computer, laptop, and mobile devices to the internet. Given how much our daily lives revolve around the use ...

The two major components in a small computer network are a modem and wireless router. The modem is wired to the Internet via the cable company's coaxial cable, the telephone company's DSL phone line, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. If you’ve got a mesh Wi-Fi network set up in your home, you ...

Yes, you can buy your own cable modem, and you might want to, given the excellent throughput and dead-simple setup of the Netgear C3000 WiFi Cable Modem Router. Router only supports up to 300Mbps ...

Every home is connected nowadays, which requires having access to the internet. This is through an Internet Service Provider (ISP), along with a subscription plan that unlocks monthly access. You can ...