If you take a look at your wireless router , you may see the abbreviations LAN and WAN, which are often next to some of the ports on the device. LAN stands for local area network, and WAN stands ...

Knowing some common types of LAN and WAN arrangements can ... the hub will most likely be a network switch, while star WANs generally make use of a concentrator router. With a star network ...

As promised, this week’s column highlights some comments I received in response to my recent column about Cisco’s WAN access routers ... Or do you want your router and LAN switch integrated ...

But I don’t want guests to have access to the other resources on my LAN ... to the external network is allowed.” The device located in the router’s DMZ receives a forwarded copy of all port and ...

Our suburban test lab includes AT&T U-verse rated at 18Mbps, and Time Warner Cable data access rated at 15Mpbs with "Turbo" mode for faster downloads. Each router was configured with a single WAN ...

When you have two "NAT routers ... LAN ports on both. Never connect anything to the second routers WAN port. Double NAT isn't 'wrong', but it isn't what most people want when everything on the ...

To explain router vs. switch, let's clarify a few terms: Local Area Network (LAN): A LAN connects multiple ... Wide Area Network (WAN): A WAN connects different LANs that are dispersed or at ...

There are usually three categories of such networks: LAN, or local area ... part of the same local area network. A MAN is made from switches or routers connected with high-speed links (usually fibre ...