Sure, in a lab you can't already get 1 Gbps speeds. But most of us don't work in labs. We work in the real world. The best performance I've ever seen using my Linksys EA9200 tri-band router with a ...

Your 802.11n wireless network and devices are about to become passé. Although the official 802.11ac specification won’t be finalized until sometime in 2013, wireless equipment will soon appear on ...

The next generation of WiFi, 802.11ac Wave 2, has begun certification, promising features that dramatically improve wireless speed and range. Although 802.11ac was first approved all the way back in ...

In theory, 802.11ac Wave 2 devices, when working with other Wave 2 enabled gear, can crack 7Gbps. Linksys, wisely, doesn't make any such claim. In the real world, Wi-Fi never runs as fast it does in a ...

Review updated 1/29/2013: If you need to connect just a single client, such as a laptop or a home-theater PC, to your 802.11ac network, a Wi-Fi client USB adapter is much cheaper than a wireless ...

If your business has kept pace with changes in wireless networking, you’ve deployed dual-band routers and client adapters that can stream encrypted data over the airwaves at speeds greater than 100 ...

CNET editor Dong Ngo picks the five best Wi-Fi routers that support the latest standard, 802.11ac. It's time to upgrade! Dong Ngo Former SF Labs Manager, Editor Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been ...

Back in 1999 we got our first real taste of our wireless future: WiFi. The first variant was called 802.11a and operated in the 5GHz spectrum (later on, 3.7GHz support was added). Back then, 5GHz ...

The Wi-Fi Alliance announces its Wi-Fi Certified ac certification program, which aims to guarantee the interoperability of 802.11ac-enabled devices regardless of their hardware vendors or type of ...

The 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard has been around for a few years now, long enough that it has found its way into all but the very cheapest phones and laptops. It’s going to be the mainstream standard for ...

Wi-Fi 8 is set to be the next upgrade to your wireless internet, but is it really already time to make the switch? Here's ...

Finalized in 2013, the 802.11ac standard significantly improved upon 802.11n, increasing its theoretical maximum throughput from 600 Mbps to 1.33 Gbps. It also expanded support from 4 antennas to 8, ...