wireless networking
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Samsung Envisions a Future Where You Control Your Smart Lights With Your Smart Fridge
If you a lot of Samsung devices in your home, the company announced that your Galaxy smartphone, Samsung TV, and even your Samsung-made fridge can all act as controllers for smart home gadgets that will support the Matter standard. It doesn’t matter quite yet, as the new smart home standard won’t launch until 2022. But…
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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 Is the Best Wi-Fi 6E Router You Can Buy Right Now, If You Must
Given how new and expensive Wi-Fi 6E routers are right now, is it even remotely reasonable for you to buy one? You’ll have to search your own heart for the answer to that question, but you’re here, so I’m going to help you figure out which one is best. Over the last couple of months,…
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You Have a Week to Opt-Out of Amazon Footpath, Do It Now
Users of Amazon Ring and Echo have only about a week to opt-out of the tech giant’s sketchy new IoT service, Footpath. The feature goes live on June 8th and promises to share an encrypted sliver of your home network with the networks of other nearby Amazon IoT device users as a way to “improve…