The story is always the same:   The desktop is chained to a cable because no one drills holes in a rental.   The five-year-old notebook tops out at 300 Mbps—on a good day.   You just upgraded to gigabit fiber and the speed-test needle barely twitches. One USB stick...

My desktop computer at home can’t connect to WiFi, relying solely on a cable, which limits its placement. My laptop’s outdated network card underperforms, and even with an upgraded broadband connection, the internet is always lagging. I’ve heard that getting a WiFi 7 card will completely solve these problems? Is...

The problem   You paid for gigabit fiber, but the old black box under the TV wheezes out 200 Mbps.   You travel for work, yet hotel Wi-Fi still thinks 2003 was yesterday.   You move apartments more often than you move furniture, and every landlord “forgot” to leave a...