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Here's how to adjust your router settings to dial into the best internet speeds - no expensive upgrades required.

Turns out bad Wi-Fi is usually placement and settings—not bad hardware.

I'm currently using a WRT54G router with Tomato firmware and I have a simple residential dynamic ip address cable modem. The cable modem is in "bridged" mode and the router is set to use DHCP to get ...

There are some drawbacks I've noticed when using my phone as a mobile hotspot, especially under heavier workloads.

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As a long-time freelancer and work-from-homer, I’ve owned a lot of routers in my quest for the speediest and most pervasive possible Wi-Fi. I had the original Apple Airport, followed by the AirPort ...

When lockdown happened and the world burst into chaos, there was at least one thing I could rely on: my home network. Sad? You betcha. But with the Wi-Fi speeds I get with my Netgear router, I’m the ...

In retrospect, I should have learned my lesson the first time. For the past year, I have been adding some smart home devices to my apartment and seeing their performance drop with each passing minute.

I like having my WiFi router set up to log in with HTTPS, but the browsers have gotten to the point where they become a hindrance to HTTPS. Safari, for some reason, refuses to make a connection to my ...