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A New Generation of Wi-Fi to Improve Your Home Network
The technology, Wi-Fi 6, is designed to reduce congestion from devices. We put it to the test.
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Parking Lots Have Become a Digital Lifeline
As the sun set on a recent evening in Rutherfordton, N.C., the author Beth Revis drove her green S.U.V. into the parking lot of a closed elementary school and connected to the building’s free Wi-Fi. Then, for the third time since the coronavirus pandemic had taken hold, she taught a two-hour writing class from her driver’s seat.
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How to See Who's On Your Wi-Fi
Is your internet sluggish? If you suspect a neighbor is stealing your Wi-Fi, these two apps can help you identify devices using your connection and help you boot them off.
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A History of Vintage Electronics: The Guglielmo Marconi Collection and the History of Wireless Communications
April 25 marks the birth of Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian electrical engineer who pioneered wireless communications. Today, we celebrate the International Marconi Day.
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How to boost your home’s Wi-Fi
Some strategies to make sure you’re getting the most out of your home Wi-Fi
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How Wi-Fi Almost Didn’t Happen
Opinion: Launched 20 years ago this week, Wi-Fi nearly hit a dead spot.
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What CIOs need to know about 5G
If you've been ignoring 5G, start paying attention. It may not be time yet to orchestrate a 5G implementation, but it's certainly time to think about your plans.
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RSSI in 802.11 implementations
RSSI can help determine when the level of radio energy in the channel is lower than a certain point so that the network card is clear to send (CTS).
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192.168.0.0 IP Address
192.168.0.0 is a private IPv4 address belonging to the 16-bit block of private IP addresses. Without private IP addresses such as 192.168.0.0, it wouldn’t be possible for 25 billion devices to connect to the internet because the fourth version of the Internet Protocol uses 32-bit addresses, limiting the address space to 4,294,967,296 addresses.
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What You Need to Know About Packet Sniffers
Today we are going to discuss the practice of data packet sniffing.
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Protecting Yourself From a WiFi Hack
We believe that the best way to protect yourself against an intruder who wants to hack your WiFi is to know how to hack a WiFi password yourself.
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Companies fed up with crappy Wi-Fi are deploying 5G instead
Automakers, oil companies, and shipping ports plan to build private 5G networks for faster, more reliable connectivity. The German automaker plans to build its own, private wireless network at its production sites using 5G, the next generation of cellular technology. Audi believes this private 5G network, which the company would be responsible for managing, will enable it to connect manufacturing robots and other devices faster and more securely than existing Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or 4G LTE options, says Henning Löser, the head of its production lab.
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NSFW Plan and measure your outdoor WiFi with NetSpot
Outdoor WiFi range extenders and access points allow you to get fast wireless Internet access outside. Modern high-end routers have antennas that allow them to transmit a WiFi signal over long distance and communicate with multiple devices at the same time. However, an outdoor WiFi extender might be a cheaper solution.
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WPA3: How and why the Wi-Fi standard matters
WPA2 has given us 14 years of secure wireless networking. WPA3 will fix a number of big problems in WPA2 and make strong security the default condition.
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Improve your WiFi signal with a WiFi booster and NetSpot
Check out what WiFi booster is, how to select it and how NetSpot could help to choose it.
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