Published May 2, 2026, 1:00 PM EDT Oliver has been writing about mobile and the wider technology space for more than a decade with bylines on TechRadar, CNET, Inverse, and more. With experience covering breaking news, writing in-depth product reviews, and sharing more than a few opinions, Oliver has been the go-to expert for some of the biggest publications both online and in print. There are plenty of reasons to buy a new network switch for your home. We all have more devices that need to get online than ever before, and if you want the pinnacle of network performance and reliability, you're going to need a cable. And if you have more than a few devices, you'll need a switch to effectively turn a single Ethernet port into multiple. But it isn't that simple, because not all network switches are created equally. Modern network switches come in two flavors, and that's something that a lot of people don't realize.…