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Mobile data charges abroad can be prohibitively expensive and tethering for wifi burns through the phone's battery. The new Fonebud W wireless hotspot solves this problem for over 80 countries worldwide. Don chats with Dixon about the features of this new device. Using your home SIM while in a foreign land typically ends with a large bill when you get
Mesh WiFi is still considered a new product in most markets with few consumers understanding the technology behind it or the benefits over wifi extenders. Many people simply use the basic wifi in the modem or router supplied by their broadband provider, though I imagine we'll see mesh wifi incorporated into their offerings over the next year or so. Sky
Here's the problem....your broadband connection comes into the front of the house and your games room is at the back of the house. The free wifi router from the telco is rubbish and struggles with Netflix, never mind playing online gaming with the PS4. And the Bluray player needs a cabled connection. What are you going to do? On solution
Fasetto are making good on their promises from last year's CES with the announcement of the Fasetto Link, a palm-sized pocket NAS and communications hotspot. Building on the Fasetto's cross-platform cloud storage, the Link is a 2" by 1" cuboid, packing in a maximum of 2 TB of storage and a range of communication technologies, including WiFi, Bluetooth and LTE.
Powerline specialists Devolo have given their mid-range adaptors a makeover, boosting speeds and updating the styling in line with the top-end models. The new dLAN 550 series takes over from the 500s, offering greater in-house range and faster WiFi transmission rates. There are two powerline adaptors in the 550 series, the Duo+ and the WiFi. As might be guessed, the
VPNs are great for keeping snooping countries, Orwellian agencies and thieving criminals at bay, but they're not always straightforward to setup and when you have a laptop, mobile phone and tablet it's a pain to maintain the VPN on each of them. Keezel has a solution in the shape of a personal wifi hotspot which has VPN software baked into the
One thing that can be counted on in the world of technology is progress. Yes, everything in the world moves forward, but some is faster than others and this field is one of them, advancing at a seemingly exponential rate. Just when you thought you'd seen the fastest routers one comes along that will blow the doors off of it