Upgrading your home router is often the quickest and easiest way to give your network a boost, especially if you have a lot ...
One type of electronic device to especially avoid is the microwave, which emits a strong signal in the 2.4GHz band, the same wireless band your router operates in. Be careful not to stick your router ...
Upgrading to Wi-Fi 7 and fiber exposed my home network’s wireless bottlenecks, which is why I’m finally wiring my entire ...
A security breach in Huawei routers points to a larger problem in your home. Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that home routers supplied by Chinese electronics giant Huawei to UK-based Vodafone ...
Dan has been a professional writer for more than a decade and now specializes in routers and networking devices. Originally from Chicago, IL, Dan studied comedy writing at Second City and worked as a ...
Does your home have a ton of smart home devices running it? If you do, there's a good chance that you've been out of the house when your internet has gone down and needed a way to quickly reset your ...
In December last year, it was revealed that the U.S. government is considering banning TP-Link routers entirely. Much like Huawei back in 2019, the brand might soon all but vanish from the U.S. market ...
I write about personal tech in a way most folks can understand. There comes a time in every home Wi-Fi router’s life when it needs to be replaced. When that happens, you will feel its pain. It may ...
I’ve been writing for a broad array of online publications for four years, always aiming to make important insights accessible. It’s my goal to ensure that as many people as possible can make informed ...
I'm currently using a WRT54G router with Tomato firmware and I have a simple residential dynamic ip address cable modem. The cable modem is in "bridged" mode and the router is set to use DHCP to get ...
More information has surfaced about the botnet "psyb0t," the first known to be capable of directly infecting home routers and cable/DSL modems. It was first observed infecting a Netcomm NB5 ...
Attacks recently observed in Poland involved cybercriminals hacking into home routers and changing their DNS settings so they can intercept user connections to online banking sites. Researchers from ...