DEC’s LAN Bridge 100 was a major milestone in the history of Ethernet which made it a viable option for the ever-growing LANs of yesteryear and today. Its history is also the topic of a recent video ...

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 ...

Remember the good old days of the LAN party? You might not; thanks to today’s prevalence of broadband connections, the availability of free voice and video chat services, and the ample multiplayer ...

A local-area network (LAN) connects the computer hardware in a localized area such as an office or home. Typically, LANs use wired connections to link the computers to each other and to a variety of ...

Most people cite the rise of the internet in speeds and download capacity as working against LAN parties, with many small friendship groups no longer seeing the need to haul their computers to their ...

Test the speed of your LAN with this free program. Note: This file addresses v1.1.5 of thesoftware. How fast is your network connection? No, I don’t mean how fastyou think it is, or how fast your ...

Wake-on-LAN is a protocol for remotely waking computers from a low power mode. When a network adapter detects an Ethernet packet or a WOL event, the Wake-On-LAN (WOL) feature will wake up a Windows ...