Your router is responsible for sending Wi-Fi signals to your phone, laptop, smart TV, security cameras and more. It has a big job. Sometimes it’s the reason your internet connection is spotty, but not ...

Brian Cooley is CNET's Editor at large and has been with the brand since 1995. He currently focuses on electrification of vehicles but also follows the big trends in smart home, digital healthcare, 5G ...

DD-WRT is a popular third-party firmware for wireless routers and access points that provides a wide range of feature upgrades over stock router firmwares. These include improved network stability, ...

Your home router may be the least secure device in your home network. Unless you've paid attention to its settings after it was installed, there's a good chance some ...

One of my friends brought up the 1999 sci-fi film Smart House the other day in regard to a light bulb I was fighting with. For those who never saw this gem of a movie, the premise is exactly what it ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

Your router is responsible for sending Wi-Fi signals to your phone, laptop, smart TV, security cameras and more. It has a big job. Sometimes it’s the reason your internet connection is spotty, but not ...

Illustration: Mick Wiggins What a difference a couple of years makes. In our first roundup of draft-802.11n Wi-Fi routers (see “Wireless Routers: The Truth About Superfast Draft-N“), we found so many ...

Everyone wants reliable and fast internet, and a good router can help, but how do you choose a router? The trick is to work out how the complicated mess of standards, confusing acronyms, and ...

I've used a lot of routers throughout my time on the internet, from ISP routers that have locked-down services to routers I kept way longer than I should have. Still, on every one that I could change ...

While Wi-Fi 5 routers have been around for years, and most homes in America likely won't top out on the speeds that these routers support, upgrading to a Wi-Fi 6 router comes with many alluring ...