A local area network -- or LAN -- is formed when two or more computers are linked together. As a LAN grows in size, the hardware devices introduced can range from switches used to connect hardware ...

Your Local Area Network (LAN) isn't just the gateway to the Internet from your PC—it's also capable of many cool networked activities. Okay, it's not the gateway at all; that's your router, but the ...

In the age of self-hosting and the home lab, the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to play a vital role in providing data from thermostats to security cameras. These products offer unparalleled ...

With more and more devices coming up with Wi-Fi capabilities, LANs has seen a tremendous increase in connected devices. Earlier there were only phones and laptops with Wi-Fi capabilities. But today we ...

“Traditional LAN designs are constrained by a PC-centric world, thereby placing intelligent systems at risk of significant cyber threats and poor environmental stewardship, as well as negatively ...

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Engineers in industrial environments probably have felt the need to connect some serial port device of interest to their Ethernet local-area network (LAN). Industrial devices still widely use RS-232 ...

Strange question here, but does anyone know of any access points that are capable of creating/joining an AD-HOC SSID? I have a strange application where I have a device with zero configuration ...

Campus local area networks (LANs) come in all shapes and sizes, but let’s keep it simple and say these are enterprise networks with hundreds or thousands of users and LANs in one or more buildings.