Thread is a mesh networking protocol that connects low-power smart home gadgets, and it’s one of Matter’s underlying ...

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Are you looking to upgrade your Wi-Fi? You're undoubtedly considering the benefits of a mesh network against a typical Wi-Fi router. Both options can provide excellent Wi-Fi performance, but each has ...

Working from home by day, gaming and streaming by night? Defeating Wi-Fi dead zones is more important than ever. A mesh network system can help, and these are the best we've tested. I’ve been working ...

In a home with just one working coax jack, investing in the Google Nest Wi-Fi Pro mesh system ensured I'm getting the ...

Wireless networks have long embraced a centralized model that holds the potential for bottlenecks, latency and a single point of failure. But wireless mesh networks are emerging as an alternative to ...

A decentralized networking technology originally built for battlefields and Burning Man is today being reimagined from the ground up. So researchers from Johns Hopkins University, Harvard, and the ...

Wireless networks have to work hard to keep up with today's families with their high-data usage when streaming movies, playing games or working from home. When I think of Netgear Orbi, I imagine ...

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In the early 2000s, mesh networks were on the verge of being everywhere and connecting everything. Daisy-chaining many devices like beads on a string would “accommodate hundreds or thousands of nodes” ...

This mesh system uses Wi-Fi 7 technology and 6GHz transmissions to bring speedy wireless networking to all corners of your home. As with other mesh systems, it is a breeze to install and manage, and ...