Running your home network can be as simple as a router and a few wireless clients or as complex as a multi-node configuration with VLANs, switches, access points, and a custom router and firewall.

Most people only think about their home network when something goes wrong, like when the Wi-Fi slows down or cuts out mid-meeting, the TV suddenly stops streaming the movie, or downloads crawl at a ...

iperf3 is a network throughput tool used to measure the performance of the network your Mac is using. Here's how to use it in the macOS Terminal app. iperf is a UNIX memory, network throughput, and ...

My home and home lab network are a mess. Over the years, connecting my lab's physical and virtual machines (VMs), SAN, NAS, and other projects using various network switches, and routers have become a ...

In this final installment of the series, I present examples based on actual cases I’ve encountered where these tools were utilized to solve the problem. In the first example, a small network with a ...