Last updated: 6 September 2026
This page explains how Networking Signal decides what to publish, how we check it, how we handle money, and what we do when we get something wrong. It is written down so you can hold us to it.
Who writes here
Networking Signal is written by Jaspreet Singh and Gurpreet Singh. Every article carries the name of the person who wrote it. We do not publish anonymously and we do not use invented author personas.
Where an outside contributor writes for us, the article is bylined to them and edited by us to the same standard as our own work. Contributors are told the rules on this page before they start.
How we choose topics
We write about a subject when one of these is true:
- Readers are asking about it, in email or in comments.
- The existing answers online are wrong, out of date, or so vague that they do not solve the problem.
- It is a fundamental that the rest of the site depends on.
- It is a buying decision where the trade off is genuinely hard to see.
We do not publish an article because a keyword tool says it has volume and nothing else. Traffic follows a useful page, not the other way around.
How we check what we publish
Commands and configurations are run. If an article tells you to type something, we have typed it. If a walkthrough has steps, the steps are in the order that actually works, on the platform named in the article.
Numbers are sourced. Distances, speeds, power budgets, standards behaviour and protocol timers come from the relevant standard or from the vendor documentation, and we link to it. Where a figure is a practical rule of thumb rather than a specification, we label it as one.
Screenshots and diagrams are our own. Every diagram on this site is drawn by us. We do not lift images from other publications or from manufacturer marketing and present them as ours.
Version and context are stated. Networking answers age badly. Where behaviour depends on a platform, a firmware version or a standard revision, we say which one we mean.
What we will not do
These are absolute, not aspirational.
- No paid placement. No manufacturer, retailer or agency can buy a mention, a review, a position in a comparison, or a link in an existing article. We do not sell sponsored posts. We do not sell links. Requests are declined without exception.
- No affiliate led verdicts. Commission rates play no part in what we recommend. We regularly recommend products that earn us nothing and regularly advise against products that would earn us more.
- No spun or scraped content. Nothing here is a reworded version of someone else’s article.
- No fake urgency or invented scarcity. No countdowns, no fabricated stock warnings, no invented reader statistics.
- No pretending to have tested what we have not. If a verdict is based on specifications and published testing rather than a unit in our hands, the article says so.
How the site is funded
Two sources, both disclosed.
Display advertising. We carry adverts served by Google AdSense. Google chooses which adverts appear, not us. An advert next to an article is not an endorsement by Networking Signal.
Affiliate commissions. We take part in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program and other affiliate programmes. If you buy through one of our links we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Full detail is in the affiliate disclosure.
Editorial decisions are made before commercial ones. The person choosing what goes in a comparison is not choosing it by payout.
How we handle product reviews
We buy most of the hardware we write about. Occasionally a manufacturer supplies a unit for review. When that happens:
- The article says clearly that the unit was supplied.
- No conditions are accepted. We do not agree to copy approval, to a minimum score, or to a delayed publication date tied to a favourable verdict.
- Supplying a unit buys consideration and nothing else. Several supplied products have received negative verdicts.
Corrections
We get things wrong. When we do, we fix them properly.
- Report an error by emailing [email protected] with the article link and the sentence that is wrong. You do not need to prove it. Pointing at it is enough for us to go and check.
- Factual errors are corrected as soon as we have verified the problem, usually within a few days.
- Significant corrections are noted in the article rather than quietly edited away, so a reader can see what changed.
- Typographical fixes and small clarifications are made without a note.
- Articles that can no longer be made correct are rewritten or removed, not left standing.
Updating older articles
Networking hardware, firmware and pricing move constantly. We revisit our buying guides and our most read explainers on a rolling basis, check the facts against current documentation, and update the published date only when the content has genuinely changed. We do not refresh a date to look current while leaving stale content underneath it.
Use of artificial intelligence
We use software tools in production, including for research, for drafting assistance and for generating the code that draws our diagrams. Every article is written, checked and signed off by a named human author who is accountable for it. We do not publish unreviewed machine generated text, and no article goes live without a person having verified its technical claims.
Independence
Networking Signal is independently owned. It is not part of a media group, it is not owned by a manufacturer or a retailer, and no advertiser has any say in what we publish. If that ever changes, this page will say so before anything else does.
Contact
Editorial questions, corrections and complaints go to [email protected] or through our contact page. We answer every one.