Place centrally in the home for maximum reach. Elevate on tall furniture (signals radiate outward and downward). Keep your ...

You may notice that your Wi-Fi router comes with two network options: 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. It's a feature most modern routers offer and is known as a dual-band network. Called frequency bands, both ...

Modern routers now allow you to set up a guest network, an entirely separate Wi-Fi network to keep your main network secure. Instead of giving away the password to your main Wi-Fi network, where all ...

The router my ISP installed sits where it always has, right at the edge of my home, plugged into the fiber ONT, doing the job it was designed for. Upstairs in my office sits a second router. It has ...

For the snow lovers among us, it’s been a wonderful week, if you could take the time off and enjoy the snow. Some find it a bit of a rude awakening, cold weather combined with snow that just kept ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has extended a vital software lifeline for millions of American consumers who own foreign-made drones and routers. Originally facing a looming deadline that ...

If you bought a foreign-made drone or router and quietly panicked when the government started banning them, here's some relief. The FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology published a formal notice ...

Whenever someone sends me a question about how to fix their Wi-Fi, I wince. It’s not that I dislike helping people with their router problems. In fact, there are few geeky endeavors I find more ...

China's state security authorities recently found that a foreign intelligence agency had used domestic routers in China as "proxies" and phishing emails to target personnel at key institutions to ...

A SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) is a tiny bit of circuitry that uniquely identifies your cellular modem in a phone, tablet, or other device to nearby cellular networks to allow access for voice, ...