WiFi Gets Moar Power
A lot of people have mixed feelings about current FCC Chairman Brendan Carr but the recent decision “to create a new category of unlicensed devices… that can operate outdoors and...
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Tag: WiFi
Each Of Us Blocks WiFi In Our Own Special Way And WhoFi Can Tell Us Apart
It would seem that we each interfere with WiFi signals in a unique way, which can be measured thanks to several researchers who have created a system they call WhoFi. Their…
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6 GHz WiFi Traffic Jams Looming?
The 6 GHz WiFi band is likely going to face congestion issues in the coming years in certain places. CableLabs, a non-profit networking think tank run by cable television operators...
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Can WiFi And Cellphones Coexist On The Upper 6GHz Band
If you have been to a large event recently, you were probably reminded what happens when a large amount of wireless devices congregate in one area. The frequency bands get overwhelmed and…
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WiFi Woes? Build Your Own Helical Antenna
When you run into WiFi signal issues it can be quite a pain trying to resolve the problem. WiFi signal boosters and repeaters are often next to worthless, many models simply don't…
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Public Wi-Fi Is … Safe?
Many years ago Eric Butler released a program called Firesheep which showed just how amazingly insecure HTTP over public WiFi was, not to mention exposing the bad habits of web surfers in…
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Wi-Fi Alliance Bringing Improved WPA3 Security To Wi-Fi Devices This Year
The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced an update to its Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) security suite in the form of WPA3. The first major update in more than a decade, WPA3...
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It’s not easy rounding up wireless devices
As Sebastian discovered when he delved into the world of MU-MIMO routers, benchmarking the performance of wireless devices is not as easy as it sounds. TweakTown recently put together a...
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Protection against Pineapple penetration is important
Today Slashdot linked to an article about the popular Wi-Fi Pineapple as well as how to defend yourself against what it does. Depending on what you are using it for, the Wi-Fi…
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Don’t let todays WiFi security Krack drive you into a panic
If you are running Windows 7 or a more recent version and applied the patches from last Tuesday then you are essentially immune to KRACK attack, however older Android OS,...
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Mesh Wi-Fi Performance Benchmarks: eero vs. Google Wifi vs. Amplifi HD
Back in February we took a quick initial look at the eero Home Wi-Fi System, one of several new entrants in the burgeoning Mesh Networking industry. Like its competitors,...
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Why the world of WiFi is as murky as the HiFi market
Our own Sebastian Peak has delved into the nightmare world of testing WiFi, specifically MU-MIMO and explained some of the difficulties you encounter when testing wireless networks. It is now...
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The eero Home WiFi System: Get Meshed
Mesh networking is the current hot topic when it comes to Wi-Fi. Breaking from the trend of increasingly powerful standalone Wi-Fi routers that has dominated the home...
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CES 2017: D-Link Launches New Wi-Fi Routers and Extenders
D-Link recently announced two new Covr branded wireless products that promise to blanket homes in Wi-Fi and eliminate dead spots. The Covr Wi-Fi System is a D-Link DIR-883 router and DAP-1655 extender kit…
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CES 2017: ASUS Announces HiveSpot and HiveDot Mesh WiFi
ASUS has just announced the HiveSpot and HiveDot Mesh WiFi systems, which both combine multiple access points into a single network. Any individual node could be configured as either a...
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Intel will be absorbing USB and WiFi duties into the chipset
Rumours have reached the sensitive ears of DigiTimes about the inclusion of USB 3.1 and WiFi chips on Intel's upcoming 300-series chipsets. This move continues the pattern of absorbing secondary...
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Google WiFi Bringing Wireless Mesh Networking to the Home
Building on the company’s OnHub WiFi router program, the search giant will be offering up its own mesh WiFi network solution for home users later this year aptly named “Google WiFi.” Available…
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Can’t WiFi and LTE-U just get along?
LTE-U, aka LTE in unlicensed spectrum, is a new standard originally proposed by Qualcomm which allows LTE signals to stray into the 5GHz band to allow faster data transfer over short throws…
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