There's a lot that's confusing about shopping for internet. But shopping for your own router might be one of the most confounding parts of the process. Retailers often inflate the speeds routers can ...

Your internet service provider (ISP) brings the internet into your home through a modem. A router then converts that signal into Wi-Fi, allowing phones, laptops, TVs and other devices to connect ...

Warning: This column addresses very basic tech concepts like Wi-Fi. If you know what Wi-Fi is, you might want to go read the Fry’s ad. A co-worker told me she didn’t know much about technology and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you're used to being tied down to a dial-up or high-speed Internet connection that plugs ...

If you’ve read any of our posts in the last couple years, you’ll have noted that our community is stoked about bringing the Internet to their devices on the cheap with the ESP8266 modules. Why? This ...

First, take a look inside the device: In principle, the Sonoff Basic is a single-relay unit to be used as retrofit, based on the ESP8266 chip, a very popular and inexpensive Wi-Fi solution. However, ...