Network security relies heavily on passwords. Cisco routers use passwords to ensure that only "trusted" users can perform certain services. In this Daily Drill Down, Todd Lammle takes you on a journey ...

Cisco has long been making business routers that are rated as top performers by such electronics industry reviewers as PC Magazine and CNET. Cisco manufactures dozens of router models, but one of the ...

Whether you're setting up a new router or looking to get the best speeds from an old one, it's important to understand which settings have an impact on network traffic speeds. When you're configuring ...

When Cisco released the Valet Plus ($90, 4.5 stars), it had raised the bar for wireless router setup. Other vendors, I predicted, were sure to follow suit. Since then, most of the newer routers on the ...

A free software-analysis tool and benchmark guidelines to help make widely used routers from Cisco Systems Inc. more secure from hacker attacks and other vulnerabilities were released today by a ...

Cisco faced a consumer-driven backlash over its abrupt decision to update the embedded software on some its home Wi-Fi routers so that customer services were managed through a cloud service over the ...

We told you earlier today about how Cisco is pushing a cloud-based WiFi router management service onto customers of certain Linksys devices—and that to use the service customers must agree to a list ...

Cisco’s new Valet Plus wireless router doesn’t promise a whole bunch of fancy features or apps. What it does promise is that you can set it up and have a secure, working wireless Internet connection ...

Cisco caused an uproar when it pushed out an update to certain Linksys routers that blocked local access to router settings, instead prompting users to sign up for the Cisco Connect Cloud service. Not ...

Also, I do access my router from the net when I need to enable a service to my home network. (this bulletin goes out to the previous smart guy who thinks he knows network engineering and has never met ...