Review updated 1/29/2013: If you need to connect just a single client, such as a laptop or a home-theater PC, to your 802.11ac network, a Wi-Fi client USB adapter is much cheaper than a wireless ...

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Sure, in a lab you can't already get 1 Gbps speeds. But most of us don't work in labs. We work in the real world. The best performance I've ever seen using my Linksys EA9200 tri-band router with a ...

Wi-Fi networking is poised for a major update: The transition from 802.11ac to 802.11ax promises a modern networking hub that can cope with the burgeoning number and diversity of wireless devices that ...

As the Mac 911 columnist at Macworld, I’ve received hundreds of emails from people who have had Wi-Fi fail on their computers. In August 2016, I wrote a column that provided all the advice we had to ...

Your 802.11n wireless network and devices are about to become passé. Although the official 802.11ac specification won’t be finalized until sometime in 2013, wireless equipment will soon appear on ...

Finalized in 2013, the 802.11ac standard significantly improved upon 802.11n, increasing its theoretical maximum throughput from 600 Mbps to 1.33 Gbps. It also expanded support from 4 antennas to 8, ...

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 ...

Faster Wi-Fi: It's something we all crave. Fortunately, it's also something we can have, even on a budget. It's not just about fast Internet speeds to and from your service provider. It's also about ...

Wireless standards tend to get proposed, drafted, and finally accepted at what seems like a glacial pace. It's been roughly 17 years since we began to see the first 802.11b wireless routers and ...