The data was harvested from home wireless networks as Street View cars photographed neighbourhoods between 2008 and 2010.
Using it inside my home wireless 802.11g WLAN I could do some really nice full screen hi-res video by turning up the bandwidth.
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Naturally, the Nest can be connected to a home wireless system, allowing you to adjust temperature settings and check daily energy usage through an energy history feature from a PC, smartphone, or tablet.
Indeed, the spread of broadband internet links, mobile phones and, in particular, home wireless networks over the past few years has led some people to conclude that the dream might even be about to become a reality.
While these products can solve your home wireless service problem for a couple of hundred dollars they do require that you have a broadband Internet connection because the microcell relays your voice and data service requests to Verizon via the Internet.
As a result, consumers are prone to experience deteriorated performance such as choppy videos and slower load times, especially when streaming content from the cloud, smartphone or tablet to a digital TV. 5G WiFi dramatically improves home wireless range, providing higher-capacity video streaming, the ability to connect multiple devices to the network at the same time and broader coverage with fewer dead spots.
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The Rapoo Home Entertainment Wireless Headphones H9080 will be available in Q1 2013.
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Belkin's ultimate goal is to be the global leader in the connected home and wireless networking space and this acquisition is an important step to realizing that vision.
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While some Engadget editors struggled to see even half the appeal of those WiFi-connected washing machines at CES 2012, Motorola's Connected Home gateway showed a realistic vision of how a wireless home should work, with its gateway router tying your Android devices to your thermostat, security system and lighting.
Beyond the home, the Wireless 5x2 HD Matrix provides reliable, high quality video for work environments.
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Together, these innovations give consumers a smarter way to control their wireless home network and connected devices.
Sony launches two TV sets able to join a wireless home data network.
In addition to phones, tablets and Internet video appliances, Motorola sells wireless home networking hardware, two-way radios and baby monitors.
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We recently tried out the latest wireless home router from Netgear (nasdaq: NTGR - news - people ).
While the PC has gotten easier, newer technologies, such as wireless home networking, are as depressingly complicated as computers once were.
All U-verse Internet packages include wireless home networking at no extra cost.
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The speed of Exede Internet service makes it very competitive with wireless home broadband service as well as legacy DSL and many cable services.
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The combination of smartphones and home Wi-Fi networks has taken the concept of a truly wireless connected home from a pipe dream to a reality.
Gartner thinks there needs to be a wired backbone to the digital home, with wireless nodes also serving data to places the wires do not reach.
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In short, the experience will evolve to become a content acquisition and discovery tool and a software system that could tie together multiple devices in a wireless home.
Simply press the WPS button on the existing router and then on the Wireless Range Extender to sync and instantly increase the coverage of a wireless home network.
From wireless home networking and entertainment, to mobile accessories, energy management, and a broad USB and cable mix, Belkin products connect the dots between people and the things they love.
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Dish needs a home for its wireless spectrum, but Sprint isn't looking to be in the declining satellite TV business and it's nearly ready to close its deal with Softbank anyway.
The upgraded Onkyo Remote 2 App for iPod and iPhone allows users to stream music stored on their iPod Touch or iPhone directly to Onkyo's 2012 model networked receivers through their wireless home network.
With 802.11a, the wireless technology currently favored by Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) for transmitting video and music on wireless home networks, the signal spectrum used is in the 5 gigahertz range.
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.
It would not be terribly hard for Apple to upgrade its Airport line of wireless home-networking products to increase data-transmission speeds and create a new hardware device that allows users of its iTunes music software to play their music on home stereo systems.
"Sonos has transformed the way people listen to music throughout the home and now we're bringing our wireless HiFi approach to home theater, " said John MacFarlane, CEO, Sonos, Inc.
Setting up a wireless network in the home requires at least two components: a wireless hub, which connects to the modem (DSL or cable) or server PC, and a client device such as a PC insert card, which connects to the hub.
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