Category: Routers

Google Fiber customers can now use their own routers

Post author By Randall
Post date September 25, 2020
Categories In gear, Google, google fiber, Internet, News, router, Routers, Tech, Wifi

[ad_1] If you’re a Google Fiber customer, you were given a router to use with your service when you signed on. That might have kept folks who had a router they prefer from signing up for the service, or left some clients with redundant devices left sitting at home. Google is changing that, announcing that […]

The star of Netgear’s first WiFi 6 gaming router is its software

Post author By Randall
Post date September 17, 2020
Categories In dumaos, dumaos 3.0, Gaming, gear, netgear, News, npg xr1000, router, Routers, Tech, Wifi, wifi 6, xr1000

[ad_1] DUMAOS has been a mainstay of Netgear routers for a while now, allowing gamers access to Quality of Service (QoS) features like allocating bandwidth by device so that their PC or console can take priority when traffic is heavy or their connection experiences hiccups. DUMAOS 3.0 takes the level of control further by allowing […]

BYU researchers extend WiFi range by 200 feet with a software upgrade

Post author By Randall
Post date October 22, 2019
Categories In brigham young university, byu, connected devices, gadgetry, gear, Internet, iot, mesh networking, on-off noise power communication, onpc, protocol, range, router, Routers, smart home, software, Tech, washington university, Wifi

[ad_1] The researchers, led by Brigham Young Unviersity, have dubbed the protocol On-Off Noise Power Communication (ONPC). While WiFi typically requires speeds of at least one megabit per second to maintain a signal, the ONPC protocol can maintain a signal on as little as one one bit per second. That’s one millionth of the data […]