Strong signal bars hid a deeply unreliable connection.

With all this talk about 5G internet connections, have you ever stopped to wonder what it means? Especially if you’re a small business owner, understanding the difference between traditional wireless ...

A study of 43 devices conducted by Enex for the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has "unexpectedly" shown 5GHz Wi-Fi outperforming 2.4GHz in long-range testing, negating a major ...

Of the 470,000 Wi-Fi connections made on a recent day at Abilene Christian University, fully 94% used the 2.4GHz band, representing an extreme example of how today’s surging number of Wi-Fi clients is ...

Few devices are as essential to the smooth running of a modern-day digital household than a wireless router, so it’s strange that this black box is so little understood. Here we’ll outline one of the ...

tldr: Devices connected to the 2.4GHz band can't talk to devices connected to the 5GHz band even when they are on the same subnet. Why? For background, I had always had separate SSIDs for 2.4GHz and ...

The evolution of communications is about taking one kind of thing and making it better, faster, and more reliable. USB 1 evolved into USB 2; FireWire 400 morphed into FireWire 800; 10 Mbps Ethernet ...

Wi-Fi devices use radios to communicate, and as Wi-Fi gets faster, it uses higher radio frequencies like 5Ghz and 6Ghz, which don’t have as much range ...

I got an 802.11ac router a while ago to use with the 802.11ac card in my laptop. A while ago for reasons I can't remember I noticed an option in the wireless settings on windows on if it should prefer ...

So, you looking to buy a Router but are not sure whether your Windows 11/10 laptop supports 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz WiFi. In this article, we are going to show you some simple steps using which you can check ...