Pretty much everyone has a router in their home. This is what helps our wireless devices like our smartphones, tablets, smart speakers, and laptops connect to the internet without the need for a cable ...

IP reservation is the process of assigning a specific IP address to a device, such as a computer, so it receives the same address each time it (re)connects to the network, such as when you restart it ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

When it comes down to configuring and accessing your wireless router, chances are you’ll be asked to use an IP address, and that address is usually 192.168.0.1, the most common of the bunch. The ...

I'm currently using a WRT54G router with Tomato firmware and I have a simple residential dynamic ip address cable modem. The cable modem is in "bridged" mode and the router is set to use DHCP to get ...

It's imperative for sys admins to manage IP addressing properly, even in simple networks. Routers, firewalls and monitoring tools all use IP addresses to uniquely identify and organize network devices ...

A MAC address may be the address of your Mac, but they’re not interchangeable. MAC stands for Media (or Medium) Access Control, a geeky term for a part of network communications between the actual ...

I've always ended up needing to install something like openwrt on my routers. I'm not particularly interested in continuing to need to do that as this seems like an obvious feature people might need ...