All-in-one Internet appliances usually don’t live up to their name. Quad Micro Works’ Square One is no exception.

VLANs aren’t just for large networks. Doug Reid shows you how to use a smart switch and VLANs to divide a small LAN into secure, separate segments.

HP bumps capacity to 1 TB, adds an online backup service and takes away the movies from its Media Vault and says it has a nice small business NAS. Bill Meade agrees…except for the bugs and undocumented features.

In the final chapter, we find out about wireless and VPN and whether our hero gets the girl.

Think your data is all comfy and secure in your RAID5 NAS? You might be in for an unpleasant surprise when NAS failure comes knocking.

Hammer Storage may be a relatively unknown NAS supplier. But its myshare has a good combination of features, performance and price.

Looking to add monitoring and alerting to your network, but not looking forward to hassling with SNMP MIBs and apps? Belkin’s Pulse may be the answer.

This chart summarizes key specs and features for the smart switches featured in our $250 Gigabit Smart Switch Roundup (/content/view/29915/51/) and Dell PowerConnect 2708 (/content/view/30040/51/) reviews.

This switch is a great way to go gigabit and see what a smart switch can do for you.