As smart-home devices become more popular, homes around the world are filling up with Wi-Fi signals. Refrigerators connected to Wi-Fi aren’t exactly going to tear through your bandwidth. Neither will a Wi-Fi Tea kettle, or a Wi-Fi connected lightbulb. But added together, their presence on the network does add up. Once that happens, network traffic …
Choosing a router is actually pretty easy. Once you’ve decided on a modem/router combo, there are only a few questions left to ask. Do you have any special requirements for security features, or any reason for an unusually high number of Ethernet ports? If not, then you really only have to think about bandwidth. And …
Our devices are more connected than ever. The modern smart-home can everything from Wi-Fi enabled lightbulbs to Wi-Fi tea kettles. But as people continue to add devices to their network, they’re starting to discover a problem. When you have a network with only two devices connected, a smartphone and desktop computer, then just about any …
Inside a large home, or an unusual office layout, you’re going to almost inevitably encounter Wi-Fi dead-zones. Finding the right mesh router can plug those holes in your network, and make your connection more reliable in the process. Essentially anytime you’re trying to cover a bigger area, a mesh router is almost certainly going to …
Not all businesses have the same network needs. Nevertheless, there are a handful of things just about any business will want. Reliability, speed, adaptability. Features you generally need on any router are needed in even greater measure when applied to business. Then there are things almost unique to business routers. Extra layers of security, more …