Wi-Fi and Ethernet are some of the most common ways to connect to the internet, but they have their shortcomings. While one requires a lot of wiring and pre-planning, the other creates numerous dead ...

Although watching TV shows from the 1970s suggests otherwise, the era wasn’t completely devoid of all things resembling modern communication systems. Sure, the 50Kbps modems that the ARPANET ran on ...

Ethernet is the technology that is commonly used in wired local area networks (LANs). A LAN is a network of computers and other electronic devices that covers a small area, such as a room, office, or ...

Ethernet is ubiquitous, fast, and simple. You only need two diffpairs (four wires) to establish a 100Mbit link, the hardware is everywhere, you can do Ethernet over long distances easily, and tons of ...

Yes, token ring is gone, but it was never a flop. In retrospect, today’s Ethernet resembles more closely the token-ring IEEE 802.5 standard than it does its own original IEEE 802.3 standard. As ...