The cost of home networking has been tumbling of late, so much so that it's quite possible to purchase an 8-port gigabit switch for around £20. A super-fast, hardwired connection is useful when ...

Available in four standard configurations, the flexible switch comes with either 100 MB or 1 Gb Ethernet interfaces as well as with a Class 2 wide range power supply. Conforming to EN 50155 and ISO ...

The NM10 unmanaged 8-port Ethernet switch comes in a compact box and has four standard configurations with either 10/100BASE-T or 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet interfaces and a Class 2 wide range power ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

Routers and network switches aren't the same hardware—depending on your setup, you may need both.

The EIS Series is a new line of industrial Ethernet 8-port switches. The top-of-the-line EIS-408 model is Web-managed and provides six 10/100Base-TX copper ports and two 100Base-FX fiber ports. Feb. 1 ...

Ethernet splitter vs. switch: Which one do you need? Ethernet switches and ethernet splitters seem, at first glance, to be basically the same thing. Their names and functions are similar. However, ...