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• Say No To Microsoft At Home And Make The Easy Switch To Linux*
  Friday 12 May 2006 – 09:31
  A look at Tony Bove's Just Say No to Microsoft and running a home desktop on Linux the easy way. So simple a child could manage it.
• Blu-ray support a last minute switch, Microsoft says*
  Wednesday 28 September 2005 – 04:33
  In an exclusive interview with Tom's Hardware Guide, one of Microsoft's lead representatives on the DVD Forum Steering Committee said that decisions regarding whether his company and Intel would back and promote HD DVD as a high-definition video disc standard, were determined only within the last few days. Prior to some critical recent developments and announcements, both companies - which had proclaimed neutrality - may have been ready to back Blu-ray.
• QuickView: ASUS RX3141IP Sharing Gateway Router with Integrated 4-port Gigabit Switch*
  Thursday 23 June 2005 – 09:02
  The coming wave of consumer routers with gigabit Ethernet switches is starting to hit. ASUS' RX3141 is the first to support Jumbo Frames, but Tim Higgins finds it not as innovative on other counts.
• Linksys Wireless-G Ethernet Bridge with 5-port switch reviewed*
  Thursday 23 September 2004 – 09:20
  You might be tempted to think that Linksys' WET54GS5 Wireless-G Ethernet Bridge with 5-port switch is just a WET54G with a slightly-overpriced 10/100 switch built in... but you'd be wrong. There's much, much more to this first-in-category product, including ways to make bandwidth hogs behave!
• QuickView: NETGEAR GS108 ProSafe 8 Port Gigabit Desktop Switch*
  Friday 5 August 2005 – 05:27
  If you've been looking for a gigabit switch for SOHO use that supports jumbo frames, your search could soon be over. NETGEAR is rolling the feature into this consumer-priced gigabit switch for no extra cost. But getting your hands on upgraded product will be tricky in the short term.
• Netgear FS728TS: Smart Switch for the Masses?*
  Monday 13 March 2006 – 03:52
  Managed switches have long been a mainstay of corporate networks, but lower prices and Web interfaces are now making them more attractive to SOHO networkers. Tim Higgins looks at a good example of this new breed of switch.
• Linksys BEFSX41 EtherFast Cable/DSL Firewall Router with 4-Port Switch/VPN Endpoint Review*
  Monday 14 October 2002 – 06:00
  4 port SPI-based router with two tunnel IPsec VPN endpoint. Has dedicated LAN DMZ port.
• Hawking Dual WAN Firewall Router w/4-Port Switch Review*
  Thursday 5 September 2002 – 08:29
  Dual Ethernet WAN SPI-based router. Inexpensive alternative to Symantec VPN 200, but without dialup/ISDN backup ports, and less sophisticated load balancing and failover.