You can almost feel the drain on your home routercranking away all day while you're computer, your spouse's, computer and the kids' devices suck out WiFi. “You have four simultaneous connections all ...

WiFi, the popular wireless connection, often heralded as a modern marvel, also brings its fair share of woes. It's an indispensable part of our digital lives, but the frustration it can cause when you ...

If you've been facing connectivity issues in specific areas of your house, changing these router settings might improve ...

It's up to you to ensure that your home Wi-Fi is safe and secure. Your router may or may not be set up for security by ...

Stop moving closer to your router—that's exactly what's killing your signal ...

Over the last 10 years 802.11 technology has made remarkable strides -- getting faster, stronger and more scalable. But one problem still haunts Wi-Fi: reliability. Over the last 10 years 802.11 ...

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Researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will this month begin looking for technology that will let wireless communications work even through the most extreme and nasty ...

A report from a regulatory authority in the U.K. has found that baby monitors, security cameras and microwave ovens are causing interference for Wi-Fi users, moreso than overlapping Wi-Fi signals. The ...

Obviously, I live in NYC, so I have at least twenty wireless networks flying through my apartment at any given time, and I'm getting abysmal wireless G speeds. I tried getting a new N router (the ...

With the city of Boston planning a municipal Wi-Fi network, Steven Conley, IT director for the Boston Red Sox baseball team, is bracing himself for possible interference with fabled Fenway Parks own ...