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The holiday season puts a big strain on your Internet connection, from family movie nights to long-distance video calls. If you’re seeing some slowdown, it might be time to upgrade your router or switch to a mesh network. Cutting-edge networking hardware harnesses the entire Wi-Fi spectrum for optimal throughput and …

October is the time to catch up on spooky movies, and if you’ve got a lot of people streaming, gaming, or working at once in your home, buffering might have you suffering. The cure? A new router or mesh system. Cutting-edge networking hardware harnesses the entire Wi-Fi spectrum for optimum …

Gaming is all about speed—reaction time, frame rates, and of course, Wi-Fi. If your current router struggles to keep up, the TP-Link Archer GE800 is built to fix that. With Wi-Fi 7, 12 streams, and speeds up to 19Gbps, it’s designed to eliminate lag and keep your connection rock-solid. And …

Imagine coming home and instantly enjoying blazing-fast, reliable Wi-Fi throughout your space. The TP-Link Archer AX21 might just be the remedy you need. Right now, it’s 28% off at $71.99 (down from $99.99), which means faster WiFi 6 speeds without burning a hole in your pocket.This router isn’t just about …

There are a number of places in the massive system of tubes that is the Internet where things can slow down, but you only have control over one of them: your home network. If your streaming and gaming have been lagging lately, it might be time for a hardware upgrade. …

Even if you’re paying for the best speeds your ISP can offer, your home network hardware might be holding you back. If you’re still pushing your gaming and streaming through a last-generation router, you’re probably losing a bunch of speed. It’s trivial to swap out your old router for something …

Mesh routers are all the rage right now. Google, Amazon, Asus, Linksys, and many others have their own dual or tri-band mesh setups, but now Netgear says it has something new—the world’s first quad-band Wi-Fi 6E system. That extra band is going to cost you dearly, though. The Orbi Quad-band …

From the minute you take it out of the box, you can tell the Synology RT2600ac Wi-Fi router ($229.95) means business. Its four removable antennas will never let the unit fade into your furniture, or compete for fashion points with many of the new “cute” units in the market. But …

Earlier this week, we reported on the LG 5K UltraFine monitor’s problems with content when a router was placed near the display. LG has confirmed the issue and recommends that users who have their displays too close to routers move either the display or the router to create more space …

Last year, when Apple canceled its own Thunderbolt-equipped monitor line, it offered LG’s UltraFine 5K as a successor. The UltraFine 5K appears to be a fine monitor, as far as it goes, but it suffers from one critical problem — it dies if you put it near a router. The …