In retrospect, I should have learned my lesson the first time. For the past year, I have been adding some smart home devices to my apartment and seeing their performance drop with each passing minute.

This is the best router/smart-home hub combo on the market, but you’ll trade power for convenience and ease of use. A smart-home system has components distributed all over the house, controlled by a ...

Nighthawk X4S AC2600 Smart WiFi Router (R7800): A 2016 CES Innovation Award winner with dual-band WiFi, supporting Wave 2 WiFi features including quad-stream, MU-MIMO, and 160MHz bandwidth for 4K HD ...

Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based adventure connoisseur, a lover of terrible movies and an enthusiastic yet mediocre cook. A CNET editor from 2013 to 2024, Ry's ...

Netgear's Nighthawk X4 AC2350 Smart WiFi Router ($279.99) boasts the beefiest hardware specs of just about any consumer router on the market. Unfortunately, its souped-up components don't boost ...