Netgear just announced a new Wi-Fi 7 mesh router system called the Orbi 870, joining the pre-existing 970 and 770. The ...

plus four gigabit ports for wired devices. That’s enough for you to hardwire your most demanding gear—streaming set-top boxes, TVs, and game consoles—if you keep your router close by.

Some devices work much better when they have a dedicated line to the router, and you wouldn't ... the levels of reliability and speed that a wired gigabit LAN can achieve, and that's without ...

Luckily, a modern router can fix a lot of these ... these TP-Link Deco X20s support wired ethernet backhaul, and with a 2.5 Gigabit ethernet port, you can keep your Wi-Fi speeds pretty fast.

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) announced last week that the OpenWrt One, a Wi-Fi router created with open-source software in mind, is now available to buy for $89 on AliExpress. The SFC says ...

The Deco BE63’s additional Ethernet ports can be used for a 2.5-gigabit wired connection between the routers, which will always be faster than Wi-Fi, or to connect PCs and game consoles.

Here's how I gave my slow gigabit speeds a jump ... Ethernet offers a wired connection through cables, which you can plug directly into the router, and should provide faster speeds than Wi-Fi.

The switch is also wired to the router and modem to access the Internet ... to remote devices such as security cameras (see PoE). Gigabit switches support 10, 100 and 1,000 Mbps (1 Gbps).