A section of a local area network that is used by a particular workgroup or department and separated from the rest of the LAN by a bridge, router or switch. Networks are divided into multiple ...

Remember Back to My Mac, which let you access your network from afar? There’s a new game in town. Tailscale creates a secure virtual LAN for your devices that lets you access your own resources and ...

Also called a "VLAN," it is a logical subgroup within a local area network that is created via software rather than manually moving cables in the wiring closet. It combines user stations and ...

They can also be blocked by walls. However, they are ideal for mobile devices, which can connect to a network as long as they are in the range of a wireless access point (WAP). Switches are ...

The experience of getting together to use a LAN, except it's on WAN. Have you ever wanted to have a LAN party but without the, you know, LAN? Just the watching over other peoples' shoulders and ...

To prevent issues with loops in the network, the spanning tree algorithm was developed and implemented, forming the foundations of the modern-day Ethernet LANs, as demonstrated by the basic LAN ...