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Home networking guides and news: WiFi 7 routers, mesh systems like eero and Deco, and fixes for dead spots and slow speeds in every room of your home.
An IT professional found his parents’ Keurig K-Supreme SMART had uploaded 1,008 GB in just over ten days and knocked their Wi-Fi flat. The headline sounds like a spying scandal. The follow-up is stranger and more useful: almost none of that traffic ever reached the internet. Here is what actually happened and what it means for every smart appliance in your house.
Office Wi-Fi hands your employer the domains you visit, the timings and the data volumes, but not the pages, searches or messages. Here is exactly where the line falls, and the one thing on your device that moves it.
How far apart mesh Wi-Fi nodes should be, where to put each one, what eero, Google, Orbi and Deco actually recommend, and how to check the backhaul signal.
Most mesh systems underperform because the extra node sits in the dead zone instead of halfway to it. Here is the placement strategy that fixes it, with the distances eero and TP-Link actually publish and a ten minute test to confirm a spot.