Wi-Fi 8 trades speed for reliability
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Thursday, 14 November 2024 09:40

Wi-Fi 8 trades speed for reliability


Available in 2028

The next generation of wireless technology, Wi-Fi 8, also known as IEEE 802.11bn Ultra High Reliability, will emphasise reliability over speed.

Google's flashy new office has rubbish Wi-Fi
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Networking, they have heard of it

Google, the online giant run by billionaire Larry Page, has a new office building that looks the business, but has a Wi-Fi service that's pants.

Wi-Fi can spy on you
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Thursday, 19 January 2023 12:13

Wi-Fi can spy on you


Boffins know where you are and what your position is

Boffins at Carnegie Mellon University are using Wi-Fi signals to determine the position and pose of humans in a room opening the way for your router to spy on your location.

Saudi Arabian boffins turn windows into Wi-Fi
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Bandwidth is a bit of an issue 

Boffins in Saudi Arabia have developed a technology capable of transmitting a wireless Internet signal powered by the Sun through specialised glass.

Scot students' fume over lessons in "internet free" church
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They can take away our freedom but they cannae take away our wi-fi

Angry students at the University of Glasgow have blasted the decision to make them sit through lectures in a 19th-century church which does not have wi-fi.

Boffins come up with WiFi paint
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Friday, 19 August 2022 10:26

Boffins come up with WiFi paint


Makes walls more transparent to signals

Boffins at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and the University of Rennes have discovered a new method that allows Wi-Fi signals to penetrate walls more effectively.

Boffins hack the brain of a fly
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Monday, 25 July 2022 11:33

Boffins hack the brain of a fly


Have they never seen Westworld? 

Boffins working for Rice university have hacked the brain of a fly and can control them by WiFi.

WiFi routers packed with vulnerabilities
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Monday, 06 December 2021 13:09

WiFi routers packed with vulnerabilities


Nine routers had 226 potential vulnerabilities

Insecurity experts tested nine popular routers made by Asus, AVM, D-Link, Netgear, Edimax, TP-Link, Synology, and Linksys, and found that they were packed with 226 potential vulnerabilities.

Coronavirus kills wi-fi
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Wednesday, 12 August 2020 12:08

Coronavirus kills wi-fi


Unless you are wealthy

Eurostar’s PR department has produced a truly bizarre reason to kill off wi-fi on its trains – it was due to the coronavirus.

117 home Wi-Fi models have dodgy firmware
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Thursday, 09 July 2020 10:54

117 home Wi-Fi models have dodgy firmware


Fraunhofer Institute finds flaws

The Fraunhofer Institute has used its own analytical software and discovered that the most recently available firmware for 117 home Wi-Fi models currently sold in Europe, including routers from Asus, D-Link, Linksys, Netgear, TP-Link, Zyxel and AVM are shot full of holes.