Administrators typically perform a wide variety of maintenance tasks, including backing up data, archiving old data, cleaning up shared drives, updating and patching software, and various other chores ...

Using a 10/100 switch in any networking setup will immediately slow down all devices downstream from that switch. There is ...

Point-to-point network cabling refers to the direct connection between devices such as the switch to the server, the server to the storage, the server to other servers, etc. This cabling method is low ...

Ethernet cables can come in handy, but have you ever wondered why they are mostly yellow? Here's what the color commonly means.

Although it probably feels like forever to many of us since Category 5 Ethernet cabling became prevalent, now that 2.5 and even 5 Gbit Ethernet has trickled into the mainstream, a pertinent question ...

Hello guys, after years with my family, we decided to build our home. Since we only have land and didn't start to build anything atm, I want to plan for, it to have a good network infrastructure. I ...

Banks, co-host of the Packet Pushers Podcast, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financial services and tech organizations since 1995. When’s the last time you thought about the ...

Before Wi-Fi became ubiquitous, Ethernet was the way to link devices together. By running Ethernet cables in a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN), you could send traffic back and ...