Installing a custom firmware on your Wi-Fi router is like God Mode for your home network. You can see everything going on, boost your Wi-Fi signal, beef up your ...

How do I troubleshoot and identify the source of recent wireless problems with my Linksys WRT54G running the latest Tomato firmware? Basically, I want to know if my router's wireless components are ...

I'm moving from a FIOS area to a Time Warner area (bloody awful) and I am still using a Buffalo Airstation router with Tomato on it, I need to upgrade. I have just purchased a Motorola Surboard 6183 ...

For various wireless LAN access points (wireless LAN broadband routers and nomenclature) currently available on the market, anything like a control panel that changes the setting regarding its ...

Gad! I complained a few weeks ago about frequent DNS lookup errors on my AT&T DSL connection. I tried using Google’s DNS servers instead of AT&T’s and, for a while, it looked like the problem was ...

In the face of internet service providers like Comcast instituting bandwidth-capping, the Simple Help weblog details how to use a router running the open-source DD-WRT firmware to monitor your ...

Firmware is the low-level software programmed into a device's read-only memory, responsible for controlling its hardware functions. In the context of routers and networking equipment, firmware ...

As the number of connected devices in our homes and offices continues to multiply, the limitations of many consumer-grade broadband routers become increasingly apparent. Not so long ago, many users ...