Your internet connection depends on multiple devices working together. Here are the details to help you troubleshoot problems and stay online.

These two devices help power your home internet connection. It helps to know how they function. Here are the details. Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based adventure ...

When you sign a contract with an internet provider, they'll typically send you a modem and a router in the mail. But which is which? And how are they different? A modem and a router work in tandem ...

The router/modem combinations supplied by big internet providers like Comcast and AT&T have traditionally not been hardware to get excited about. The best you could say is that they got the job done — ...

Each month, when your Comcast bill comes due, many of you pay a monthly fee for the device that provides internet access in your homes. Rental for what’s known as the Xfinity Gateway typically runs ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The xFi Advanced Gateway also has some smart home tricks up its sleeve. It includes built-in support for Zigbee, ...

While a handful of modem and router companies jumped quickly into the 5G market last year, some big names are establishing themselves with multiple options in 2020 — and Linksys, the networking arm of ...

Comcast, like most cable ISP services, provides most of its subscribers with a basic all-in-one modem solution that combines an Internet gateway with a router. If you have a more complicated home ...

Comcast’s 18 million Xfinity internet customers will have two good reasons to keep renting their modems from the media giant in 2020. While Xfinity users could skip the rental fees by snagging a ...

AT&T has a new internet gateway that combines its fiber-wired internet offering with its 5G-based wireless broadband option. On Wednesday the carrier is introducing a new device that not only ...

Comcast last month announced that it was giving its Flex streaming device to Internet-only customers for free, but the announcement did not mention one important detail: the “free” device is only ...

Today, Comcast launched an upgrade to its existing Plume-based Wi-Fi mesh offerings, the xFi Pods. The new, tri-band xFi Pods appear to be direct implementations of Plume’s Superpod design—which is ...