Mark Z. Barabak is a political columnist for the Los Angeles Times, focusing on California and the West. He has covered campaigns and elections in 49 of the 50 states, including a dozen ...

Defeating Wi-Fi dead zones is more important than ever. A mesh network system can help, and these are the best we've tested. I’ve been working with computers for ages, starting with a multi-year ...

In bigger homes that have Wi-Fi dead zones, you generally have two options: Add a Wi-Fi extender to your existing router or upgrade to an entirely new mesh router. A mesh Wi-Fi system consists of ...

He’s tested over 250 mesh networks, routers, and modems. After our latest round of testing, the Linksys Velop Micro 6 is our new runner-up pick and the TP-Link Deco BE63 is a new upgrade pick.

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Whichever you choose to go with, range extenders and mesh extenders will only put out a network signal that's as strong as the incoming wireless signal from the router, minus whatever penalty you ...

An ideal application for mesh networking is off-grid communication; when there’s no cellular reception and WiFi won’t reach, wide-area technologies like LoRa can be used to create ad hoc ...

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