Cute and unobtrusive design. Simple setup. Reasonable price. Reliable coverage and performance. Matter and Thread support for smart-home devices. No multi-gig ports. Not backward compatible. Limited ...

The Google Nest Wifi Pro brings much-needed Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E support to its routers, alongside more ethernet ports, and plenty of other improvements. It also loses a few things along the way, but ...

Google seems to be changing its strategy with internet routers a little. The last-generation Google Nest WiFi was kind of built to be an all-in-one home hub. Sure, it was a router, but the secondary ...

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As ever, the Nest Wifi Pro is designed to be as simple as possible to install in your home. Inside the box, you’ll find the wildly shiny router held safely in place by a fabric pad, so as to avoid ...

If you've ever paid attention to your home's WiFi router, you might have noticed a small button on it. This button is called WPS, or Wi-Fi Protected Setup. This button's function is to simplify the ...

The recent wave of new mesh router systems has brought with it changes besides the obvious increase in Wi-Fi range. For example, these mesh routers are more likely to insist on WPA2-AES encryption, as ...

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