Google Cast devices, like the Chromecast and Google Home cause temporarily Wifi dropouts for users around the world. The issue has been confirmed for routers from Asus, Linksys, Netgear, TP-Link or Synology. In some cases the router is totally inaccessible for a while, other users report the router only disconnects from the internet. TP-Link and Linksys have confirmed the issue.

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission went ahead with its deeply unpopular plan to end net neutrality protections, giving internet service providers like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast unprecedented control of our experience online. But what if you and your community could become your own internet service provider? Congress can still reject the FCC’s decision, though at least one proposed bill suggests there’s reason not to be overly optimistic they will save the day. Either way, maybe it’s time to rethink our relationship with the internet — and with big ISPs that facilitate our access to the web.

When sign-up discounts expire, customers are smart to renegotiate.

There are a ton of free VPNs out there promising no-cost invisibility on the Internet, but they're not without drawbacks.

Most people understand by now a VPN keeps your internet use more private. But how does it actually work? We've broken it down.

It's hard to predict how different sysadmins jobs will be in the coming years. But here are some guidelines gathered during a sysadmin career spanning more than three decades.

In this article I will explain how to set up a wifi setup that can connect to an internet source far away. This works great on a boat (which I did in my case), in an RV, or even in a downtown apartment. If you have the password to a nearby wifi it will essentially transport that wifi and make it wherever you have this set up. You can get a wifi login to a local restaurant or cafe and then have that in your own home environment (if it is reachable). In my case I set this up on my boat and was able to get access to wifi in an office 2 miles away that I had the password to.

You don't want your servers, network infrastructure, or mobile apps to crash because it could inconvenience end users? That's nothing: Automotive engineers don't want their products to crash because crashes kill people. Car designers and builders are helped by industry standards, and we can all learn from their best practices.

Want to get the most from your Wi-Fi? Here's how to do it.

Today, no company would consider using anything except Ethernet for its wired local-area network. But it wasn't always that way. Steven Vaughan-Nichols tracks the history of Ethernet, and its once-upon-a-time networking protocol competitors.

An industry consortium called MulteFire wants to help you build your own LTE-like network that uses the Wi-Fi spectrum, with no need for carriers or providers.

Learn how the global DNS system makes it possible for us to assign memorable names to the worldwide network of machines we connect to every day.

A giant outage of Amazon Web Services and other recent accidents offer an opportunity to reflect on the perilous architecture of the web.

The good news is that it doesn't have to suck, if you build it out properly.

The good news is that it doesn't have to suck, if you build it out properly.

Your home Wi-Fi performance will soon get much better thanks to new Wi-Fi chips that Qualcomm announced today, the IPQ8074 system-on-chip (SoC) for broadcasters (routers and access points) and the QCA6290 SoC for receivers (Wi-Fi devices). They belong to the first end-to-end commercial Wi-Fi portfolio to support the all-new 802.11ax standard.

Mesh networking has finally come to small businesses and offices. Here's why that matters.

A flaw in Netgear routers is 'trivial' to remotely exploit -- R7000, R8000 and R6400 -- maybe more. US-CERT advised discontinuing use unless Netgear issues a fix. There's a way to test if your router is vulnerable and an unofficial temporary fix.

Network Time Protocol is how the computers you depend on know what time it is (this is critical to network operations, cryptography, and many other critical functions); NTP software was, until recently, stored in a proprietary format on a computer that no one had the password for (and which had not been updated in a decade), and maintained almost entirely by one person.

A new report has surfaced that Apple is getting rid of its division for wireless routers, signaling that AirPort is on its way out the door for good...