If you have a solid internet connection, you owe it to yourself to get a mesh Wi-Fi system. It’ll help to cover more of your apartment or home in fast Wi-Fi. You can get Google’s Wifi in a three-pack for $150 at Amazon, down from $200. This 25 percent discount […]
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‘Welcome to the Mesh, Brother’: Guerrilla Wi-Fi Comes to New York
Before the recent vision, the city’s last major broadband intervention was negotiated under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in 2006. New York entered a franchise agreement with Verizon that gave the company the privilege of burying fiber-optic cable under city streets in exchange for installing high-speed Fios in every neighborhood. But […]
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August Wi-Fi Smart Lock Review: Our Favorite Smart Lock
The August Wi-Fi Smart Lock is a deadbolt replacement that turns a standard deadbolt into a smart one that can automatically unlock when you arrive home. This simple, smart home upgrade is one of our favorites, and it works out great in an apartment as a simple upgrade to make […]
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Wi-Fi troubles? New tech can give family their own personal network
Mike Feibus, Special to USA TODAY Published 9:57 a.m. ET Oct. 29, 2020 | Updated 3:30 p.m. ET Oct. 29, 2020 CLOSE (Photo: Getty Images) SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – When your children’s online schooling starts bogging down your Zoom presentation, wouldn’t it be great if you could just send their electronics […]
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New York Homeless Students, Parents Demand Wi-Fi in Shelters
Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images For Christlie, a 33-year-old mother of two living in the Regents Family Residence on the Upper West Side, getting on the internet is an exhausting daily battle. She and her daughter Amina, 9, both need web access: Christlie is a communications student at Borough of Manhattan […]
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With iffy wifi, Venezuelan schoolkids struggle to join classes
Thumbing his mobile phone, Jonathan Figueroa sits on his doorstep in a desperate daily quest for a Wifi signal to download his homework. © Cristian Hernández Jonathan Figueroa, 14, looking for a neighbor’s wifi signal in Caracas’ Bello Campo district, October 2020 Battered by the pandemic and economic collapse, Venezuela’s […]
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Best Wifi Extender Reviews, Best Wifi Range Extenders 2020
Maine, ME ( TS Newswire ) — 30 Sep 2020 Best Wifi Range Extender Reviews 2020, Read all that you need to know about the best wifi extenders. The RangeXTD wifi extender and Super Boost Wifi Booster reviews. Get High-speed internet, any time, anywhere. RangeXTD turns your whole house into […]
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Wi-Fi Game Weak? 10 Top-Rated Extenders That Can Give You A Boost
Welcome to Hype Machine, our hit-list of the top reviewed products across the web — according to a crowd of die-hard shoppers. Call this your 4-star & up only club, with entry granted by our devoted-to-the-goods shop editors If you and your quarantine crew have to huddle around your router […]
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Wi-Fi woes are even worse during coronavirus pandemic, and only some of us can do anything about it
Slow, spotty, stuttering Wi-Fi is the worst. I know because I spent the last month trying to work from my parents’ house outside of Kenai, Alaska. If it was sunny, and I turned their router off and on, stood on one foot in the highest point of the southeast corner […]
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‘Living in my car’? Fall semester online means college students are scrambling for housing, Wi-Fi
When California State University announced May 12 its schools would be online for the fall semester, Graciela Moran thought she might end up homeless. The San Bernardino student is immunocompromised and had been living in her dorm as a residential assistant. But with the Cal State announcement, her contract ended and her stipend was taken […]