There's a lot that's confusing about shopping for internet. But shopping for your own router might be one of the most confounding parts of the process. Retailers often inflate the speeds routers can ...

Warning: This column addresses very basic tech concepts like Wi-Fi. If you know what Wi-Fi is, you might want to go read the Fry’s ad. A co-worker told me she didn’t know much about technology and ...

Picking out a Wi-Fi router can be one of the most challenging parts of setting up home internet-- and it may be a reason most of us rent our routers instead of buying them. Retailers often exaggerate ...

While familiar WLAN vendors like Cisco, Aruba and Ruckus are all over the move to cloud-managed Wi-Fi, so too are newer companies looking to make a name for themselves. This company, which spun out of ...

First, take a look inside the device: In principle, the Sonoff Basic is a single-relay unit to be used as retrofit, based on the ESP8266 chip, a very popular and inexpensive Wi-Fi solution. However, ...

In October 2016, criminals launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Dyn’s managed DNS infrastructure. The assault messed with how the internet translates domains like the ...

The Meross Matter Smart Wi-Fi Plug Mini makes for an affordable Matter-compliant smart plug, but offers only the bare minimum of features. Compact and Matter-compatible as advertised, the Meross ...

The wireless local area networking concept known as Wi-Fi began infiltrating the business, manufacturing and consumer worlds at the end of the 1990s. With the Wi-Fi Alliance certifying ...