We often look for tips and tricks for fixing your homeWi-Fi, and these fixes often include a “one more thing” kind of advice: upgrade your internet hardware. Rather than using a cheap ISP router to ...

Plume's Adaptive WiFi System is a clever new way to extend your home Wi-Fi network, but does it offer enough to justify the cost? Dong Ngo Former SF Labs Manager, Editor Former CNET editor Dong Ngo ...

Comcast has launched new Xfinity xFi Pods, which are mesh Wi-Fi extenders meant to combat dead zones in homes. We wrote about the pods last year, but their launch was delayed. They are small pods that ...

Comcast today is officially launching its own Wi-Fi extender devices called xFi Pods that help to address problems with weak Wi-Fi signals in parts of a customer’s home due to things like the use of ...

A Mashable Choice Award is a badge of honor, reserved for the absolute best stuff we’ve tested and loved. If we left it up to cable companies with their crummy, out-of-date Wi-Fi routers, we’d never ...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As we add more internet-connected devices to our home networks, it’s increasingly common to encounter problems when Wi-Fi performance just can’t keep up. A new service ...

Your Wi-Fi shouldn’t be the reason your video call freezes while you’re making a point. If your connection’s been feeling more early 2000s than cutting-edge ...

Chris Welch is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio (Sonos, Apple, Bose, Sony, etc.), home theater, smartphones, photography, ...