Wi-Fi is the wireless alternative to network cables. It’s the most popular way to connect devices locally and to the Internet. A Wi-Fi device is one with this wireless capability built-in to connect to a Wi-Fi access point which can host multiple Wi-Fi-enabled devices at a time.
As the second Wi-Fi 6E broadcaster on the market, the much anticipated NETGEAR RAXE500 Nighthawk 12-Stream AXE11000 Tri-Band Wi-Fi 6E Router is the presumed rival of the ASUS GT-AXE11000 that arrived earlier this year. Apart from the additional 6GHz band, the two have many other things in common. That includes …
The ASUS ROG Rapture GT-AXE11000 Wi-Fi 6E Gaming Router, originally announced in September 2020, didn’t materialize until early 2021. And it still made it to be the very first Wi-Fi 6E broadcaster in the world. Months later, there are still just a few 6GHz clients, namely, the Samsung S21 Ultra …
The Linksys MR7500 AXE6600 Hydra Pro 6E Tri-Band Mesh Wi-Fi Router—available for purchase today, together with the Atlas Pro 6E mesh system—has a cool name. And that’s about its only novelty. Sure, it’s the third Wi-Fi 6E broadcaster on the market, joining the ranks of the ASUS GT-AXE11000 and the …
NETGEAR today announced the availability of the Insight ManagedWi-Fi 6 AX3600 dual-band Wireless Access Point (model WAX620) for a big home or a small business. This is the upgrade to the WAX610 that came out almost a year ago. 4×4 Wi-Fi 6 sans 160MHz channel width The new WAX620 has …
I’d get the ASUS RP-AX56 AX1800 Dual-Band Wi-Fi 6 Repeater in a heartbeat. At $100 apiece, it’s a steal. And that’s a grand statement since, for years, I’ve made it clear that I’m no fan of Wi-Fi repeaters, especially dual-band ones. But the RP-AX56 is much more than just a …
Sometimes, an obvious thing to one isn’t so much so to another. Case in point: The fact that the Internet and Wi-Fi are two different things. I’ve received many questions on these two—troubleshooting, speed testing, shopping advice, etc.—where they were presumed to be the same thing or mistaken for each …
You might have heard of Wi-Fi 6E—the extension of the Wi-Fi 6 standard—with lots of buzz words and superlative likes “4K”, “8K”, “ultimate,” “super-fast,” etc. Rest assured that most of what you’ve heard is marketing hype. Indeed, Wi-Fi 6E is not all it’s been cracked up to be. Don’t get …
The TP-Link Archer AX90 AX6600 Tri-Band Wi-Fi 6 router is, for the most part, the souped-up version of the tri-band Archer AX3200. That said, this review is also an Archer AX90 vs. Archer AX3200 matchup. Indeed, the two have so much in common, despite their somewhat distinctive Wi-Fi specs. So, …
I’d say this the D-Link DIR-X5460 EXO AX AX5400 Wi-Fi 6 Router is basically the lesser model, the DIR-X1560, plus some extra. And that’s true mostly in the physical size and performance. At the core, though, the two are essentially the same, including the old web interface, the lacking feature …
For a few months now, folks have been asking me to review the TP-Link Deco X90 AX6600 Whole Home Mesh Wi-Fi System, and I was about to do precisely that. Upon close inspection, though, I realized that the Deco X90 is basically the Deco X5700 I already reviewed, with just …
