CommScope is a communications technology corporation that owns ARRIS, a popular brand of cable modems and residential Internet gateway.
As the world is slowly adopting Wi-Fi 7, CommScope’s first complete Wi-Fi 6E solution, the 2-pack SURFboard mAX 6E tri-band Mesh Wi-Fi System (model W161) announced on June 15, 2023, is fashionably late to the party, to say the least. Yet, the company touts the new hardware as a “cutting-edge” …
The ARRIS W6B Surfboard Thruster Wi-Fi 6E Gaming Acceleration Kit is a niche product—it’s not for everyone. Specifically, it’s only for those too lazy to run a network cable. And by that, I don’t even mean the complete job of getting your home wired, but just a relatively long ready-made …
The new ARRIS SURFboard W6U Wi-Fi 6E Network Upgrade Kit is essentially a Wi-Fi 6E access point. But it’s not like any other access point I’ve worked with. Specifically, unlike the recently reviewed NETGEAR WAX630E, the Arris W6U does not support Wi-Fi 6 and older Wi-Fi standards. In other words, …
