You don't need a $300 mesh Wi-Fi system (the ultimate home network fix is already sitting in your closet) ...

Open-source software is very attractive for companies looking to expand their services or quickly get new offerings to market, in part because it's free. Unfortunately, some companies tend to overlook ...

Think of all of the devices you have hooked up to your wireless home network—computers, a printer, TiVo, a game system. Now think about reconnecting them all to a new wireless router. Does the thought ...

Your old router may have been abandoned by the manufacturer, but OpenWrt can breathe some new life into it and make it useful again.

Hey, remember when the FCC reassured us last year that it wasn't going to lock down Wi-Fi routers? And everyone breathed a sigh of relief, because custom router firmware is actually a really good ...

It has been a great while since I have hooked a computer up to be my home router, the last time using SmoothWall. I thought I would ask the Matrix if anyone has a ...

The router is the technological workhorse of the modern home, bringing Internet to your many devices. A router’s wireless speed is usually a user’s main concern: Unlike wired networks, wireless ...

Using public Wi-Fi is a hit-and-miss endeavor: sometime’s its perfect, at others it’s bogged down so much as to be worthless. Fortunately a team of researchers has hit on a solution that can improve ...

Belkin, one of the first companies to ship a “Draft-N” product, has also introduced a new look for wireless routers with the Belkin N1 Wireless Router F5D8231-4. Rather than a design that could be ...

These days, having access to wireless broadband is an absolute necessity for home offices and small businesses. And after more than a decade of innovations, you would think that the standard wireless ...

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