routers

What’s The Best Wi-Fi Network Name You’ve Ever Seen?

I was travelling this weekend and found myself connected to the incredibly blandly named “Home_Nework” Wi-Fi network. When I go home, it will be scarcely better when I connect to yet another router with a boring out-of-the-box name: “FastRabbit”. Bleh


Asus Claims The Title Of World’s Smallest Wi-Fi Router

Amongst all of its Windows 8 PCs and tablet announcements at CES, Asus also quietly revealed what it is boasting as the world’s smallest Wi-Fi router. With a form factor only slightly larger than a well-equipped flash drive, the WL-330NUL Pocket Router is the perfect accessory for minimalist road warriors.


D-Link’s SharePort Go 2 Is A Feature-Packed Pocket Router

This teeny portable router from D-Link is everything a human holed up in a hotel room could dream of: Wi-Fi hotspot, emergency battery and wireless media sharer, all rolled into one.


Depressingly Accurate Portrayal Of Your Home’s Wi-Fi Signal Strength

It seems like unless you’ve assembled a giant broadcast antenna in the middle of your house, or filled every room with a repeater, your Wi-Fi signal strength always sucks. Oh, except for that bizarre sweet spot in your backyard.


Five Free Wi-Fi Security Mistakes To Avoid

Cafe or conference, we’re all happy to lap up free Wi-Fi. However, the benefit of being connected comes with a responsibility not to do something stupid while you’re using an unknown provider. These are five mistakes everyone should avoid when grabbing a little free connectivity.


Simple Router Software Could Boost Public Wi-Fi Throughput By 700%

Using public Wi-Fi is a hit-and-miss endeavour: sometime’s its perfect, at others it’s bogged down so much as to be worthless. Fortunately a team of researchers has hit on a solution that can improve throughput by 700 per cent — and because it’s software-based, it won’t even need any new hardware to have us all contentedly online.


Facebook Is Testing A Router That Gives You Wi-Fi For Checking In

Facebook is testing a Wi-Fi router that grants users internet access after they check in to a business. In other words, when you’re at the coffee shop, the router will let you online once you’ve checked in.


5 Free Ways To Boost Your Wi-Fi Signal

Your home Wi-Fi network can be a fickle mistress — connectivity comes and goes seemingly on a whim. But there’s no need to shell out hard-earned cash for a brand new router just because you can’t get online. (Besides, how would you order one?) Instead, try these free things to whip your wireless network into shape.


Lunchtime Deal: $22 D-Link Router From Harvey Norman

When did routers get so cheap? Last time I checked they were still a three-figure dent in your bank balance. Showing my age, I guess. Anyway, today you can pick yourself up a D-Link router for the paltry sum of $22 from Harvey Norman.


Lunchtime Deal: $100 Off D-Link N300 Router

If you need a quick replacement for your written-off router, Mwave might have something worth your time. The D-Link DIR-632 N300 8-port router with bonus N-Nano USB adaptor is on sale online at Mwave today for $49, rather than the $149 it usually goes for.