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You love using Wi-Fi at home. You have your laptop, your smartphone and your tablet hooked up to it so you can surf the web from anywhere in the house. Well, almost anywhere. The Wi-Fi box (the router ...

Already have power-line Internet at home and now want to extend the reach of your Wi-Fi farther? The ZyXel PLA4231 500 Mbps Powerline Wireless N Extender is the answer. Dong Ngo Former SF Labs Manager ...

Xiaomi has a long range of products ranging from smartphones to Wi-Fi routers. Among them, the company has a few Wi-Fi extenders as well and the Mi Powerline Wi-Fi homeplug would be one of the easiest ...

Wi-Fi 6E, which the Asus RP-AX58 features, is a bit like the missing link of the Wi-Fi family. It was the first version of Wi-Fi technology to introduce the high-speed 6.0GHz frequency band – in ...

The question is, which one of the two is best for the job? We’ve done our investigation and decided it’s time to share our findings with all who are interested. What is a Powerline Adapter? What is a ...

Instead of using Wi-Fi to talk to your router and risking increased congestion, powerline extender kits use one device plugged into a power socket near your router, and an extender plugged where you ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

2016 is here, and the flying cars and hoverboards are disappointing, to say the least. Worse yet, we still can't get a decent internet connection in our man cave, but Netgear is at least trying to ...

Wireless networking, aka wifi, revolutionised home computing. It’s the tech that enables you to walk from room to room with a phone or laptop, browsing the internet or updating Instagram without ...

You know how it is: you’ve just invested in a new router, perhaps a new internet service provider, and while the promised connection speeds have materialised, they just don’t quite stretch to the ...