With more people working, studying, gaming, and streaming from home today, it’s important to have fast, reliable Wi-Fi coverage at home. Regardless of the size of your home, a whole-home mesh Wi-Fi ...

ZDNET's key takeaways Routers are cheaper, faster, and easier to set up.Mesh systems fix dead zones with wider coverage.Choose based on budget, home size, and connection needs. With the adoption of ...

The story of mesh networks in 2026 begins with Thread 1.4. In 2014, a coalition led by Arm, Google’s Nest Labs, and Samsung ...

Mesh networking has been around for several years now, but can it solve your home wifi woes, and is it the right networking upgrade for you? And if it is, how can you possibly pick the right system?

If you have read or heard the term mesh networking and like to know more about this new technology revolutionizing wireless and cable networks both in business and at home. This quick guide will take ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. This article is more than 3 years old. Wi-Fi has freed up ...

One home improvement project probably worth the expense for anyone who spends a lot of time online is upgrading the router that runs your WiFi network. The router is possibly the ugliest piece of ...

A decentralized networking technology originally built for battlefields and Burning Man is today being reimagined from the ground up. So researchers from Johns Hopkins University, Harvard, and the ...

You don't have to buy a new computer to get Wi-Fi 7 speeds. There are external Wi-Fi dongles, such as the Asus RT-BE58 Go or Acer Wave D7, that you can plug into an available USB port to get Wi-Fi 7 ...

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Border patrol agents may soon rely on radio-based mesh networks to send information back and forth, thanks to a new $99 million U.S. Customs and Border Protection contract with telecoms device company ...