After working through a longish discussion about Cisco routers for your CCNA lab, it will be nice to discuss switches. Thankfully, the choice of switches is a lot easier to figure out than the choice ...

Well it certainly seems that there are a lot of you out there that watch the used router market for lab hardware pretty closely. Thanks for the continued insights into what makes sense, and what doesn ...

I'm in the process of building my CCNA lab, and could use some advice on a router to choose as a "core." I already have several 2924M-EN switches and a 1760 router, and I plan on adding another 1760 ...

I finished my basement last year and ran Ethernet cables everywhere — over a dozen drops total. My Ubiquiti Dream Machine had been handling everything on the network side without complaint. Internet ...

Joel is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, networking and messaging. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @joelsnyder. Picking the right edge and top-of-rack switches ...

A new deal is available for more than 96% off the Cisco CCNA Ruting & Switching Bundle deal. This deal is for a a bundle with over 35 hours of training for the Cisco CCNA certification exams. This ...

The three devices commonly used for linking components together on a network are hubs, switches and routers. Though similar in function they differ in capability and utilization. Hubs and switches ...

Standing in the networking aisle of an electronics retail store, anybody could mistakenly pick up a router instead of an Ethernet switch or vice versa. The product packages as well as the devices ...