The first 802.11ac router, based on Draft 2.0 silicon from Broadcom, appeared in the first quarter of 2012, and it's taken a while for other vendors to release their first products. The ratification ...

CNET editor Dong Ngo picks the five best Wi-Fi routers that support the latest standard, 802.11ac. It's time to upgrade! Dong Ngo SF Labs Manager, Editor / Reviews CNET editor Dong Ngo has been ...

The first thing you need to know about IEEE 802.11ac—the latest wireless networking standard—is that the standard isn’t actually finished. Today’s 802.11ac routers are based on a second draft. Early ...

Having several Web-connected wireless devices in your home can seriously impact Web speeds. Games can lag, videos can freeze and websites can take forever to load. Qualcomm is looking to change all of ...

At CES 2012, networking company Buffalo showed off a a router prototype built with the unofficial 802.11ac standards, sporting a 5G chipset from Broadcom that was only just announced this week.

The NETGEAR R6300 WiFi Router, powered by Broadcom's 5G WiFi IEEE 802.11ac chips, is up to three times faster than today's 802.11n routers. With an elegant new design that fits perfectly in consumers' ...

Netgear is officially the first networking company with an 802.11ac Wi-Fi router, the company announced Thursday. The R6300, which will debut in May, will reportedly run up to 1.3Gbps on the 5GHz band ...

Like a number of core components, the basic design principle that routers follow is based on what the end-user likes. In their early days, routers adopted a flat horizontal orientation and over the ...

The emerging IEEE 802.11ac standard supports high throughput multi-station connectivity with speeds up to one gigabit per second. ANADIGICS' front-end ICs provide world-class integration, efficiency, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you thought Wi-Fi couldn't get much faster than 802.11n, think again. 802.11ac, dubbed 5G ...

As faster wireless connectivity becomes a critical necessity at the office and in the home, routing vendors are stepping up their game to meet the increase in demand. Five companies are dominating the ...

Gigabit-speed wireless LAN equipment that uses the emerging IEEE 802.11ac standard is about to hit the market, with Netgear saying on Thursday that it will start shipping a consumer 802.11ac router in ...