Two of the biggest trends in household consumer electronics have merged in a way that should have seemed obvious: Netgear has released a mesh networking router that’s also a smart speaker. It’s called the Netgear Orbi Voice and in addition to working as a tri-band WiFi router that can be used in conjunction with additional […]
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Netgear’s new router is its fastest (and most expensive) yet
Netgear is launching its first WiFi router that can be used high-speed 802.11ad wireless networks as well as 802.11ac. The Netgear Nighthawk X10 also has a 1.7 GHz quad-core processor, support for 10Gigabit wired networks, and a built-in Plex Media server, which allows you to stream media from connected storage without turning on a PC. Those features […]
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Netgear joins the quest for better WiFi through multiple devices
Having trouble getting WiFi to blanket your whole house? You might need a better router: switching from a $30 802.11b/g/n router to a dual-band 802.11ac WiFi router a few years ago did wonders for the connectivity in our house. But sometimes that’s not good enough… and over the past year or so a number of companies have […]
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Netgear launches NeoMediacast wireless display dongle
Netgear’s answer to the Google Chromecast has arrived. Like Google’s media streaming stick, the Netgear NeoMediacast NTV300D HDMI dongle is a pocket-sized device that you can plug into the HDMI port of your TV to stream video to your big screen from your phone or other devices. But the NTV300D is more versatile than the […]
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Netgear launches its first Google TV box the NeoTV Prime
It’s starting to look like 2013 might be Google TV’s year… at least if the companies that make consumer electronics for your home theater system have anything to say about it. While it’s still not clear how much demand there is for smart TVs or set-top-boxes that make your TV smarter (or at least capable […]
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Netgear’s new wireless router packs 3G/4G backup
Netgear introduced its new DGN2200M wireless router today, and while I don’t normally spend a lot of time covering, or even thinking about wireless routers, this one has a unique feature that makes it pretty interesting. In addition to acting as an 802.11n WiFi router, this little box also works with an optional 3G or […]
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Netgear EVA2000 media streamer handles Hulu, SD video
The Netgear Digital Entertainer Live EVA2000 is a small media streaming device that’s about the size of a Netgear wireless router. What makes this little box interesting is that Netgear licensed technology from VuNow that lets you access web content from YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, and other web sites. In order to access much of […]