CNET editor Dong Ngo picks the five best Wi-Fi routers that support the latest standard, 802.11ac. It's time to upgrade! Dong Ngo Former SF Labs Manager, Editor Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

In the wireless race taking place in our homes, the speed of our routers always seems to outpace that of our devices. This is the cycle. As this game of catch-up is played, the connected devices in ...

If you’re looking to give your home Wi-Fi a serious upgrade but you don’t want to cough up hundreds of dollars for a mesh system, we’ve got just the thing. You’ve probably never heard of the Wise ...

I love networking. I’m sick, I know. But there’s something just… primal about making the roads and highways that allow one computer to talk to another. For all my love of networking, though, my home ...

Netgear is officially the first networking company with an 802.11ac Wi-Fi router, the company announced Thursday. The R6300, which will debut in May, will reportedly run up to 1.3Gbps on the 5GHz band ...

Like a number of core components, the basic design principle that routers follow is based on what the end-user likes. In their early days, routers adopted a flat horizontal orientation and over the ...

The first 802.11ac router, based on Draft 2.0 silicon from Broadcom, appeared in the first quarter of 2012, and it's taken a while for other vendors to release their first products. The ratification ...

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Gigabit-speed wireless LAN equipment that uses the emerging IEEE 802.11ac standard is about to hit the market, with Netgear saying on Thursday that it will start shipping a consumer 802.11ac router in ...

One thing about having a home office in a typically dense inner-London suburb is just how many conflicting wi-fi access points you'll find. Not only are there multiple access points in each home, but ...