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Newegg’s selling an Edimax AC Wi-Fi adapter for $15 today, half off MSRP
The Edimax EW-7822ULC AC 1200 is a Wi-Fi adapter you could put into a Raspberry Pi model or PC without Wi-Fi, and it's on sale at Newegg today.
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Wi-Fi gets quicker with 802.11ax, but buying early might offer few advantages
The latest Wi-Fi standard makes home networks faster, especially for video streaming.
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CES 2018: The best products we saw at the show
CES 2018 is a blur now, but we still remember the products that advanced their category, or broke new ground. Or maybe they just looked cool. Here are the top things we're still talking about.
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The latest Wi-Fi mesh router comes from… First Alert?
Showgoers were doing double takes when they saw the smoke-alarm manufacturer exhibiting routers—and smart speakers—at its booth at CES.
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WPA3 is coming to Wi-Fi routers in 2018, with better encryption and login management
The Wi-Fi Alliance announces the next-gen WPA3 standard, which will help secure routers even with lousy passwords.
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Qualcomm promotes the concept of combining routers with smart speakers
Your next router from Comcast or Cox could double as a smart speaker powered by Alexa, Cortana, or Google, if Qualcomm has its way.
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Netgear targets gamers with its Nighthawk Pro Gaming router and SX10 LAN switch
Netgear's Nighthawk Pro Gaming router and Nighthawk SX10 LAN switch boast gamer-centric network management software.
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Netgear Armor is a $70 router update that protects your home network with Bitdefender
Armor, Netgear's new subscription-based security service for your home network, will cost $70 a year and is powered by Bitdefender.
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D-Link’s McAfee-powered AC2600 router aims for network-wide protection
D-Link's DIR-2680 comes with McAfee's embedded security platform to secure your home devices at the network level.
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D-Link introduces its first 802.11ax routers
The IEEE 802.11ax standard that promises to deliver more bandwidth and better traffic management on saturated home networks.
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D-Link’s latest COVR whole-home Wi-Fi systems look a lot more like whole-home Wi-Fi systems
The company’s first efforts in this space were much more conventional.
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Linksys expands it Velop mesh Wi-Fi router line, adding a new dual-band model
Dual-band components will interoperable with tri-band modules and vice versa.
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The Linksys WRT32XB gaming router is tailor-made for the Xbox One series
Yeah, it looks just like the Linksys WRT32X from last fall, but Linksys says this one’s designed to recognize and prioritize Xbox gaming traffic.
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Netgear’s Orbi Outdoor Satellite extends your Orbi home network to the yard
The Orbi Outdoor Satellite extends the range of your home (or business) network by another 2,500 square feet for better Netflix streaming by the trampoline.
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HDMI 2.1 released: 10K resolution, dynamic HDR, and FreeSync-like game smoothing
HDMI 2.1 adds support for 10K resolution, dynamic HDR metadata, variable refresh rates, and more.
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KRACK Wi-Fi attack threatens all networks: How to stay safe and what you need to know
Researchers have uncovered a Wi-Fi security flaw, dubbed KRACK, that affects nearly any device that uses Wi-Fi, whether or not the network is encrypted. Here's what you can do to stay safe.
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Comcast is the fastest broadband ISP, and T-Mobile is the fastest wireless carrier, Ookla says
Millions of tests conducted by consumers themselves named Comcast as the fastest broadband ISP, and T-Mobile as the fastest wireless carrier.
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Amazon is selling a two-bay Netgear NAS box for less than $200 today
Netgear's ReadyNAS 212 2-Bay NAS is $191.20 on Amazon on Tuesday.
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Amazon has a 50-foot ethernet cable for less than $7
CableMonsta's 50-foot flat Ethernet cable is just $6.90 today if you redeem the applicable promotion.
World Beyond Windows
3 reasons to turn your Raspberry Pi into a DNS server with dnsmasq
Don't have a DD-WRT router? Get some of the same DHCP and DNS features with a Raspberry Pi.
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Nokia rolls out its first ‘petabit-class’ router
With internet traffic set to triple over the next five years or so, according to recent estimates from Nokia and Cisco Systems, Nokia thinks the time is right for a new range of high-end routers that can boost core capacity by a factor of six — and even help 10-year-old devices to double their capacity.News Analysis
HPE merges IT, OT with Edgeline software platform to crunch IoT data
Before the advent of sensors in cars, phones, thermostats, refrigerators and factory-floor devices, information technology and operational technology were two different worlds. The Internet of Things is changing that.News
Don’t be left behind by IPv6 deployment, ISOC warns enterprises
rnThey have the resources, the expertise and, though they may not realize it, the need — but it turns out that enterprises are often the ones that don't yet have IPv6.News
Latest firmware updates for Asus routers fix CSRF security flaws
Users of Asus RT-N and RT-AC series routers should install the latest firmware updates released for their models because they address vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to hijack router settings.
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Versa brings multiple functions to software-defined branch networks
Versa Networks wants to help enterprises overcome some of the complexity of branch networks with new multi-function software for its Versa Cloud IP Platform.News
T-Mobile quietly kills ‘Free Data for Life’ giveaway for new tablets
T-Mobile's free data for life program gives tablet users 200MB of free data every month, but it's coming to an end after 3.5 years.News
McNealy sees Sun’s past in IoT’s future
Onetime Sun CEO Scott McNealy sees some of the legendary company's vision coming to fruition in an IoT "data bus" from a small Silicon Valley outfit called Real-Time Innovations. On Tuesday, McNealy became the first member of RTI's Advisory Board.News
Network management vulnerability exposes home cable modems to hacking
Hundreds of thousands of internet gateway devices from around the world, primarily cable modems, are vulnerable to hacking because of a serious weakness in their implementation of the Simple Network Management Protocol.
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If software eats everything, are network engineers on the menu?
If you're a network engineer, don't rush out and learn a programming language. To compete in the new world of software-defined networking, it might be more important to start thinking like a programmer. That was one of the ideas that emerged this week at the ONUG Spring conference.News
FCC chairman to announce plans to repeal net neutrality
The chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is expected to announce plans to repeal the agency's 2015 net neutrality rules on Wednesday.News
ONUG gets closer to making SD-WANs talk to each other
A group of networking engineers and vendors is making progress toward an API that would help enterprises merge SD-WANs from different vendors.
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Users’ orders: Make it easier to build hybrid clouds
At its spring conference next week, the Open Networking User Group will focus on enterprises extending their infrastructure to create hybrid clouds, a process the group says is too hard and too time-consuming.
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Flaws let attackers hijack multiple Linksys router models
Two dozen Linksys router models are exposed to attacks that could extract sensitive information from their configurations, cause them to become unresponsive and even completely take them over.News
Google is helping to build another Asia-Pacific submarine cable
Google is investing in another massive undersea fiber-optic cable as a part of its plans to build out network connectivity around the world. The company announced Wednesday that it is helping to fund a project called Indigo, which will connect Jakarta, Singapore, Perth and Sydney to one another.News
Google’s Espresso networking tech takes SD-WAN to internet scale
Google is working to accelerate the performance of its applications over the internet by building out a software-defined network at broad scale. On Tuesday, the company announced Espresso, a system that provides increased network performance to users of the company’s applications.
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New ONOS release helps automate network configuration
The latest update to the ONOS open networking operating system should make it easier to automatically configure devices and services on a network.
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Vodafone prepares an LTE moon shot, quite literally
Thanks to Vodafone, the Taurus-Littrow Valley on the Moon will get its first mobile phone base station next year.News
How much can a fiber carry? Facebook and Nokia are pushing it
Facebook and Nokia have found a way to push a lot more data through a submarine cable across the Atlantic, which could help the social network keep up with the growth of video and virtual reality.
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Huawei sees switch to flash as right time to rethink whole storage infrastructure
Huawei Technologies is going all flash with its latest enterprise storage system, the OceanStor Dorado V3. It's part of the new storage-as-a-service (STaaS) offering the company unveiled at Cebit.News
Netgear’s feature-packed 802.11ad router has dropped to $350
For today only, Amazon's offering Netgear's Nighthawk X10 router at an all-time low.
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Unpatched vulnerability puts Ubiquiti networking products at risk
An unpatched command injection vulnerability could allow hackers to take over enterprise networking products from Ubiquiti Networks.News
Netgear’s Arlo Pro security camera starter pack has dropped to $600
If you need a solid wireless security camera set-up, this Arlo Pro four pack won't be getting much cheaper right now.
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5G plans just hit the accelerator
The international body crafting the 5G standard has approved an accelerated roadmap that could see large-scale trials and deployments in 2019 instead of 2020.News
Intel’s PC chief talks about 5G, changes in chip design
Intel surprised many when the company hired outsider Venkata Renduchintala to lead the company's PC, Internet of Things and Systems Architecture groups. With more than a year under his belt, he's spearheading a cultural change inside the company, getting employees to think beyond PCs and talk about technologies like 5G and the Internet of Things.News
Extreme will buy Avaya’s networking business for $100 million
Avaya has found a buyer for its networking business: Extreme Networks will buy the division for about US$100 million as part of Avaya’s bankruptcy process.
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ZTE pays $892M settlement to US over illegal sales to Iran
Chinese smartphone maker ZTE has agreed to pay US$892 million to the U.S. government for illegally selling networking technology to Iran.
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Netgear’s R6300v2 dual-band 802.11ac router is down to $70 today
It's a pretty solid Wi-Fi router with gigabit ethernet, beamforming, USB peripheral support, and remote access for well under $100.
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India’s Reliance Jio is blazing a trail to all-IP mobile networks
Fast-growing Indian mobile operator Reliance Jio may offer a glimpse of where all mobile networks are going eventually, to packet-based Internet Protocol infrastructure.News
This tool can help you discover Cisco Smart Install protocol abuse
Cisco's Talos team has released a tool that allows network owners to discover switches on their networks that might be vulnerable to Cisco Smart Install (SMI) attacks.
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