Editors' note: This article was first published on March 26, 2013 and updated on July 1, 2016 with up-to-date information. It might seem like a daunting task to set up a new home router. But it ...

A router's wide area network (WAN) port acts as its gateway to other networks, providing an interface for the router to send outgoing traffic over. Computers should not be connected to a router's WAN ...

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I scanned my router and didn’t like what I saw.

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