By Alex Cox
Getting better signal strength and improving network speed is an intricate and sometimes difficult art. Wi-Fi black spots affect just about every home, often in the most inconvenient places – and since cable placement is usually at the whim of our internet providers, moving a router to a central point in the home often isn’t an option.
Mesh Wi-Fi is here to save us all, of course. Google Wifi, Netgear Orbi, Eero, the list goes on, and will only keep getting longer.
Mesh consists of a bunch of modules beaming signal between each other, smothering your home with delicious signal – but mesh isn’t the only option. Devolo’s Gigagate is a more traditional bridge network adapter – indeed, it shows up on your network as a HomePlug device. Plug its base unit into your router, pop another one somewhere in your home, and the second (or third, fourth or even eighth) unit acts as a router in its own right.
Price and availability
US and Australian readers, look away now: there’s no way of picking up the German-engineered Gigagate in your part of the world unless you bring it in from overseas.
In the UK it’s available from a host of reputable …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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