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 bridge. Netgear’s A6200 is one ...

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 ...

The Asus USB-AC56 delivers top-shelf performance, but it’s also one of the more expensive 802.11ac Wi-Fi USB adapters you’ll encounter. Asus has been trouncing the competition with respect to wireless ...

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 ...

While 802.11ac was the true wireless LAN superstar in 2018, 802.11ax -- the newest Wi-Fi standard -- has quickly become the current hot topic in the networking industry. According to IDC's recent ...

A new Wi-Fi standard, 802.11ac wave 2, is here and maybe, just maybe, we'll get real-world Gigabit wireless networking with it. 802.11ac wave 2 can not only deliver great Wi-Fi speed, it can manage ...

The key factor defining the capabilities these products will have when they hit the market is the chip sets that are at the heart of each vendor's access point. A couple of weeks back I posted a piece ...

Extricom single-channel architecture takes full advantage of the 802.11ac standard by allowing unrestricted use of 80MHz bonded channels to blanket the enterprise, without fear of channel conflicts ...

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 ...

What’s the difference between 802.11ac and 802.11n? We explain the ins and outs of new-gen and last-gen Wi-Fi standards b, g, n, ac… wireless standards haven’t had the most logical of alphabetical ...