networking hardware
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Chromecast With Google TV Might Finally Get an Update This Year
It’s not like you didn’t already have a dozen Chromecasts floating around your house. What is one more? A new Google TV dongle, potentially packed with upgraded features, is on the horizon. Hopefully, this will be a significant update to the current four-year-old favorite. But the current pricepoint that’s rumored seems to indicate it won’t…
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Roku’s Live TV Zone Brings Cable’s Mindless Scroll to Cord-Cutting
Roku today launched a Live TV Zone as a launchpad for all of your live and in-progress streaming content. If you use Roku’s Live TV Channel Guide or subscribe to streaming apps like YouTube TV, Hulu with Live TV, or Sling TV, you’ll be able to access live options directly from the Live TV Zone.
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The First Quad-Band WiFi 6E Mesh Router Is Here, and It will Cost You A$2,037
Mesh wifi routers have become a bonafide necessity for connecting numerous devices to the internet, especially as many of us still work from home. And while Netgear’s Orbi is considered a router brand worth springing for, its newest product is a case of putting the cart before the horse.
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This Wi-Fi 6E Router Proves Next-Gen Connectivity Is Just Too Expensive
In home networking, bigger isn’t always better. Anyone who has spent time with the diminutive Eero or Ubiquiti AmpliFi routers can attest to this. Case in point: The Linksys Hydra Pro 6E is a pretty big router, though it doesn’t feel like it, yet it seems like Linksys put stability ahead of blasting data every…