Older Wi-Fi routers may have speed limitations, but the more important factor affecting internet speeds is what band your ...

Trying to boost the WiFi signal on an older D-Link router? This little antenna might do the trick. It's a brand new, 2.4GHz ...

WiFi routers are an essential part of any home networking setup, but artefacts from earlier times can clog your bandwidth and ...

One type of electronic device to especially avoid is the microwave, which emits a strong signal in the 2.4GHz band, the same wireless band your router operates in. Be careful not to stick your router ...

It’s expensive and its firmware is a few features short of the competition’s, but the Linksys WRT1900AC is the fastest 802.11ac router you can buy today (today being April 16, 2014). When Linksys ...

tldr: Devices connected to the 2.4GHz band can't talk to devices connected to the 5GHz band even when they are on the same subnet. Why? For background, I had always had separate SSIDs for 2.4GHz and ...

I had two different SSIDs for my 2.4ghz and 5ghz wireless networks- I think because I've had issues with devices not working correctly on 5ghz, but in the end, I had every device on the 2.4ghz SSID, ...

Illustration: Mick Wiggins What a difference a couple of years makes. In our first roundup of draft-802.11n Wi-Fi routers (see “Wireless Routers: The Truth About Superfast Draft-N“), we found so many ...