As your home network expands, so do the burdens of administering the list of network appliances. Maybe you've expanded the number of wired devices in your network, and added additional managed network ...

A good starting point is to create a VLAN on the Cisco that matches one on the SSR. You will have to use different IP addresses when setting it up and put routing statements in both switches so they ...

Once your home network grows a little more complex, you soon realize that grouping devices into virtual local area networks (VLANs) makes a lot of sense, both from a security and administrative ...

Merging two offices, and the plan is to use a new Unifi router (not Cloud, used with a CloudKey) with the Unifi switches in place, and then have InstantOn APs for the wifi. The VLANS (1 and 2) were ...

Rick Cook learned programming on a computer with magnetic drum memory. Since then he's written thousands of articles on all aspects of computers and high technology — as well as several fantasy novels ...

A virtual local area network is a logical subnetwork that groups a collection of devices from different physical LANs. Large business computer networks often set up VLANs to re-partition a network for ...