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AiMesh is a free feature available in all routers since the beginning of 2018, starting with the RT-AC86U, initially as a free add-on via firmware updates. Over the years, it has proven to be the networking company’s most impactful home networking feature and an essential part of its core router …
If you find NETGEAR’s Nighthawk RS200‘s $200 price tag a bit too high, the Nighthawk RS100 is a worthy alternative that costs $50 less. As the name suggests, this is the entry-level router. However, for those happy with dual-band Wi-Fi 7 who have modest bandwdith needs, it might be the …
If you’re unhappy with the U7 Pro or the U7 Pro Max due to their internal fan but can’t afford the fan-less UniFi E7, Ubiquiti has something that will change your mood. Today, the networking vendor announced the official availability of its next-gen Flagship UniFi access points, the U7 Pro XG and …
Of Ubiquiti’s newly released gateway trio, the UniFi Express 7 (UX7) is the most modest. It’s the closest thing to a standard Wi-Fi router in Ubiquiti’s UniFi ecosystem of multiple hardware applications. However, that does not necessarily mean it’s “bad”. The UX7 is still much more advanced than most third-party …
The UniFi Dream Router 7 (UDR7), one of three Ubiquiti’s 2025 compact UniFi cloud gateways, is a significant upgrade to the previous version, the UDR. It’s somewhat a combination of the non-Wi-Fi UniFi Cloud Gateway Max (UCG-Max) and a UniFi Wi-Fi 7 access point, such as the U7 Pro Max, into a …
Unlike ASUS’s previous Wi-Fi 7 ZenWiFi sets, the ZenWiFi BT6 is the first in the family to feature a single Multi-Gig port. And that can be a deal breaker for many. In a wired backhaul setup, which is generally recommended, this mesh system’s satellite unit will have its bandwdith limited …
Amazon today announced the eero 7 and eero Pro 7, adding them to the eero Wi-Fi 7 family, which already includes the eero Max 7 mesh router and eero 7 Outdoor access point. These new products are both mesh routers—they each can work as a standalone router, or you can …
March 2022 was when I first entered the realm of 10Gbps Internet with a Sonic fiber-optic plan, which has since proven to be an excellent service, at least in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was a game-changer moving from Comcast’s Xfinity cable Internet. The fast speed aside, Sonic has …
The ECW516L is the first Wi-Fi 7 access point in the EnGenius Cloud Lite (ECW Lite) family, which is supposedly a lesser alternative to EnGenisu’s standard ECW hardware. That, plus the model name, might suggest that this new AP is inferior hardware to the ECW526 that came out in mind-2024. …
The Enterprise 7 or UniFi E7 is the latest in Ubiquiti’s Wi-Fi 7 access points—in case you wonder why “7” and not “8” or any other random number. The name E7 is a bit different from the convention used for previous models, such as the U7 Pro Max or U6 …
