This is the best router/smart-home hub combo on the market, but you’ll trade power for convenience and ease of use. A smart-home system has components distributed all over the house, controlled by a ...

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It’s not the fastest Wi-Fi mesh router we’ve tested, but its smart home features make it a great value for DIY enthusiasts. Securifi’s Almond 3 has two features you won’t find in competing whole-home ...

TP-Link has a new mesh router on the scene, and it seems to do a little bit of everything. Today the company revealed the Deco M9 Plus, a tri-band router that can cover the same area with fewer nodes ...

When life gets chaotic, it can be convenient to have all your smart home devices operating on the same wavelength. Achieving this sort of harmony sometimes requires a hub to consolidate the myriad ...

Friends, feast your eyes on BT's new Smart Hub (aka the Home Hub 6). Not only is this the UK's sexiest ISP-provided router, but also the ISP-provided router with the most antennas. Yes, you read that ...

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