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If you’re looking to upgrade your AMD-based computer, be it a desktop or a laptop, to Wi-Fi 7, the Qualcomm NCM865 chip, first available via the ready-made MSI HERALD-BE NCM865 PCIe add-on adapter for desktop, is the answer. This Wi-Fi chip also supports Intel-based computers, but in this case, you’re better …
OWC SoftRAID 8 is now available. The latest release now, for the first time, is avaible with a free tier.
If you’re thinking of upgrading your home or office to Wi-Fi 7 but have been taken aback by the WBE660S‘s cost and large physical size, the NWA130BE BE11000 Wi-Fi 7 Triple-Radio NebulaFlex Access Point, first announced on March 4, 2024, would be the answer. Each of these Wi-Fi 7 access …
Today, NETGEAR announced its first Wi-Fi 7 standard AP, the WBE750 Insight Manageable tri-band Wi-Fi 7 Access Point. In a way, it’s the answer to the Zyxel WBE660S, which came out late last year. On the inside, it’s slated to be a familiar broadcaster yet totally new at the same …
To enjoy Wi-Fi 7, you need a broadcaster (a router or access point) supporting the new wireless standard—here are the growing lists of the standard’s best routers and mesh systems available today. Then, you need a computer client. Smartphones, like the Pixel 8 Pro or One Plus 11 5G, generally …
When it launched over a year ago, the Crucial T700 was undoubtedly the fastest consumer-grade SSD. Now, its successor, the Crucial T705—first announced on February 20, 2024, and officially available for purchase today—changes that. In my testing, the new Crucial T705 edges out its predecessor as the fastest NVMe SSD …
It’s been almost a year since my review of the Archer BE800 BE19000 Tri-Band Wi-Fi 7 Router, one of the first Wi-Fi 7 routers on the market, and TP-Link recently made the Archer BE805 variant available. If you judged from the name and assumed the new router has a bit …
This post is a primer on Linksys Velop, a popular brand for home mesh-ready routers and purpose-built systems. While the performance of each hardware unit (and mesh set) varies depending on their hardware specs, all Velop variants share the same firmware and, therefore, a similar set of networking/Wi-Fi features and …
The ROG Rapture GT-BE98 Pro quad-band Wi-Fi 7 router is a sizable step up from the RT-BE96U. It represents the ROG gaming family and has everything the older cousin has, plus four extra Multi-Gigabit ports and a ton of gaming-related features. Here’s the bottom line: The GT-BE98 Pro is definitely …
As the first quad-band hardware with the 6GHz spectrum split in two, the TP-Link Deco BE95 BE33000 Quad-Band Whole Home Mesh Wi-Fi 7 System proved complicated in my experience. That was the case when I first got my hands on it in early August 2023—Wi-Fi 7 was still in draft …
