How the internet and Wi-Fi work: A guide to connections, data and the cloud

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 ...
CNET

Is Your Internet Connection Delivering on the Speeds You Pay For? Here’s How to Tell

Some free speed tests, including Ookla and Cloudflare, also give you download and upload scores for latency. These are referred to as “loaded latency” results, and they’re taken while the speed test ...
CNET

If Wi-Fi Can Go Through Walls, Why Is My Internet So Slow?

Trisha Jandoc was an associate writer at CNET covering broadband and everything related to home internet. She graduated from St. John's University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a focus on ...
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Don’t Buy a New Wi-Fi Router Until You Read This

Picking out a Wi-Fi router can be one of the most challenging parts of setting up home internet-- and it may be a reason most of us rent our routers instead of buying them. Retailers often exaggerate ...