All things relating to home networking, from network wiring to Wi-Fi and more.
Earlier this week, on September 18, 2023, Intel quietly made available the specs for the all-new Intel Wi-Fi 7 Series chipsets that include two variants named BE200 and BE202. There were no news events or press releases; I accidentally stumbled on these product pages. Unlike other Wi-Fi 7 products you’ve …
NETGEAR announced a major new mesh system today, and it’s not another Orbi, nor does it support Wi-Fi 7. Instead, it’s the company’s latest Nighthawk, the MK93S Tri-Band Mesh WiFi 6E system. This is the third in the networking vendor’s low-cost product line, as the successor of the MK83 and …
There’s nothing new about the Amazon eero PoE 6 other than it’s from a company that, before this, only made wireless mesh systems. It’s the first eero Wi-Fi broadcaster that’s all about wiring. As a standard dual-band Wi-Fi 6 PoE access point, this new hardware will work with any router. …
After years of producing primarily wireless mesh systems, often with more hype than substance in terms of performance, eero, a company owned by Amazon, finally released a real high-speed networking option in early 2023—the aptly, if not oddly, named Amazon eero PoE Gateway. Suppose you’re looking for a true multi-Gigabit …
Comcast today announced the Storm-Ready WiFi, an aptly-named Wi-Fi broadcaster designed to keep its Xfinity Cable broadband customers connected during, well, a storm. That’s the idea. Judging from the name, this is a timely product. The hurricane season is coming to certain parts of the US. Considering climate change and …
This is an umbrella post on Wi-Fi, the familiar name of the 802.11x networking standards. For the past two decades, Wi-Fi has been an essential cord-cutting invention. Imagine how your smartphone or tablet would be without this wireless connection. In a nutshell, Wi-Fi is an alternative to network cables, allowing …
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” …
