All things relating to home networking, from network wiring to Wi-Fi and more.
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 …
Your DNS server is the gateway to your online life, including your security and privacy. Here’s how you can take a bit more control of it.
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 …
If you have a couple of TRENDnet networking devices, such as the TEW-921DAP access point, and want to manage them conveniently at one location, the TRENDnet Hive online portal has been a good option. And that option gets slightly better today. The networking vendor just announced the relaunch of its …
If you’re looking to upgrade your home network beyond Gigabit, Zyxel has not one, not two, but three options for you to get the job done. Today, the company launched the new Zyxel XMG1915 series with three new comparatively affordable 2.5Gbps switches, all with dual SFP+ ports as the uplink …
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 …
You often play online games and think it’s time to get the best gaming router to reach the next level. You’re onto something there! But have you ever asked yourself what exactly constitutes a “gaming router”? If you’re new in the game—a noob—and don’t even know what “noob” or “DPS” …
