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Here’s some exciting news! Soon you’ll find a lot of laptops that support Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) thanks to Intel’s release of the Wi-Fi 6 AX200 adapter. The new card features mid-range 2×2 Wi-Fi 6 specs and delivers Wi-Fi speeds up to 2.4Gbps. It supports a channel-width of up to 160Mhz …
Dong’s note: The full review of the RAX200 is now available here. NETGEAR announced today its latest Wi-F 6 router—the Nighthawk tri-band AX12 12-Stream Wi-Fi 6 Router (model RAX200)—and its price impresses me most. At $599.99 the new router sure affords you a tremendous amount of bragging rights—if you buy …
If you’re looking for a real gaming router and on a budget, there’s now an excellent option to consider: The Nighthawk XR300 Pro Gaming Wi-Fi Router that NETGEAR announced today. Nighthawk XR300: Designed for gamers In many ways, the XR300 is the light version of the XR500 that came out …
If you have a modest Internet connection and want to quickly extend it further to that far corner, TP-Link has a new quick fix. The networking vendor released today the RE220 Wi-Fi Range Extender that you can get for just $29.99. Considering the price, this is clearly an entry-level extender …
ARRIS informed me today of its very first Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) broadcaster, and it’s not a standalone router. Instead, it’s a Mesh Wi-Fi system, called SURFboard mAX Pro, or mAX for short. The news is quite exciting because ARRIS is a known maker of cable modems and residential gateways. By …
It’s quite hard to make portable storage devices interesting these days, but WD has managed to do just that at CES 2019 with four new products, each unique in its own right. These include the SanDisk Extreme PRO Portable SSD, the My Passport Go, the SanDisk Flashback, and the SanDisk 4TB USB-C Prototype. …
One of the reasons I find Asus’s AiMesh and Synology Mesh great is both have a feature that protects the entire network from online threats. Now NETGEAR Orbi Mesh System will get that, too, with a feature called, well, Armor. NETGEAR announced today at CES 2019 the Armor cybersecurity feature …
