Putting a router in your living room could become a thing of the past.
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If you want to run multiple machines or connect wirelessly, you'll need a router as well.
Simply plug one adapter into an available power outlet and connect the adapter to a router.
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It's a router that will look at home on a desktop not far from your monitor.
A. A router is where the control room will receive incoming satellite feeds and images.
Better still, the Wi-Fi circuitry makes every laptop not just a communications device, but also a router.
Plug the device into the mains, a router and a hard drive, and it becomes a personal storage cloud.
Users connect the adapter via an Ethernet cable to a router, and then plug the adapter into a wall socket.
It extends Wi-Fi range by up to 300%, at the same time offering 3-in-1 utility as a router, access point, and range extender.
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The bulb, which is expected to come out before June, will have an embedded chip and works with a gateway box that hooks into a router.
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And because the Mobi is a hotspot unto itself, your gear doesn't all need to be on the same network, or even in range of a router.
They were worried they were getting orders but not a normal volume, the lights are on but a router upstream may have failed and slowed things down.
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The protocol, which resides on a router at the edge of an IPv6 network, assigns a prefix to each IPv6 address to identify it as a 6to4 address.
One client had a router fail over to a standby.
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The Playbar also needs to connect to a router and though my router isn't far from my TV, I couldn't connect my Playbar to it using the included Ethernet cable.
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One is a wireless dock: You just set your laptop near the dock within a five-foot range, and it syncs the laptop to a printer, speakers, a monitor or a router.
The project aims to provide users with a bevy of end-devices -- automatic door locks, thermostats, humidity sensors, presence sensors, power outlet switches and more -- that connect to a router-like SmartThings hub.
While the receiver could not notice a difference between the three connections, I would say that the caller connecting to a router would still be the most preferable option, as it had noticeably less static.
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By plugging a router into a cable modem, ordinary people are stepping into a complex world, where they need to understand some highly specialized technology, according to Michael Gartenberg, VP and Research Director, Jupiter Research.
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But it's backward-compatible with the B standard, meaning that a router or other access point that uses the G standard can also support a notebook outfitted for the B standard, but only at the slower speed.
This is ideal for notebook, tablet or mobile phone users who want to be able to use their devices wirelessly and connect to the network from places in their home where a wireless signal from a router may not reach.
With SimpleTap users can take advantage of Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) in a number of ways such as using the NFC card shipping with all 802.11ac enabled Smart Wi-Fi routers, pushing the physical WPS button on a router or pushing the WPS button in the router's browser or app interface.
The STRIVA CAP can be used in conjunction with a wireless router for digital connections throughout the Internet, or it can be used to create a direct local wireless connection whenever a Wi-Fi router or hot spot is unavailable.
Mukesh Chatter's company, Nexabit, created a terabit router, a kind of digital traffic cop on steroids.
"I'd say it was five times easier to find one in a Huawei router than in a Cisco one, " he said.
Attaching appliances to a power socket via a smart plug containing sensors and a ZigBee transceiver allows information about the appliances' power consumption to be beamed automatically to a broadband router within the home, and thence to a web server located elsewhere.
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If you use a wireless router, enable the encryption to scramble the data you send online.
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