Wireless

Amazon has announced that the new eero Built-in feature they've just enabled for Australia and NZ allows select Echo devices to function as eero mesh Wi-Fi extenders, allowing owners to expand their eero network coverage. According to Amazon, households with compatible Echo products may add up to 92 sq. m. of coverage to their existing eero network and potentially support speeds up to 100 Mbps...

Amazon Australia has announced it is expanding its eero Wi-Fi mesh system lineup in Australia with eero Max 7 (Wi-Fi 7) and eero Pro 6E (Wi-Fi 6E). Both were available in the USA last year. If you don't have a gigabit NBN internet plan and at least some Wi-Fi 7 (eg: Pixel 8 Pro) or Wi-Fi 6E (eg: Motorola Thinkphone) devices in your home you...

D-Link ANZ is now selling its new 2023 Good Design Award winning AQUILA PRO AI M30 AX3000 Dual-Band Wi-Fi 6 Mesh Systems as a 2-Pack or 3-Pack in Australia. Drawing inspiration from the Aquila constellation (Latin for eagle), the M30's design concept is a unique elegant router design with 5 internal antennas, aiming to provide wider more spherical coverage. As part of "D-Link Green", D-Link’s long-running...

Chances are your mobile plan in 2017 comes with a data cap of between 1 and 15GB depending on the carrier and your budget. That restriction in the amount of data you can consume in a single calendar month is going to need to expand rapidly as we move beyond 4G and 4GX to 5G. The new wireless network technology is currently being tested in Thailand...

Researchers at MIT’s Media Lab are developing a wearable trackpad that is the size of a thumbnail. Inspired by the fashion industry, where nail covers are limited only by imagination, NailO. This wearable allows users to control computers, or connected devices wirelessly, by touching one adjacent finger to the device. Because your movements are relative, you could be laying on the couch controlling...

  The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has just announced its approval for the core specification of Bluetooth 4.2, yet another revision of the wireless technology standard we've grown with since its inception. There are a number of improvements that revision 4.2 will bring to the table. These include: - IoT-friendly. Devices using Bluetooth 4.2 will be able to connect directly to the Internet without the use of a WiFi...

The Queensland Government are planning on building a Wireless network that spans the entire state. Queensland is Australia’s second largest state at 1.7 Million square kilometers. It’s a massive challenge and one that won’t come cheap at $457.3 Million and will take 15 years to complete. Premiere Campbell Newman isn’t the most popular person in QLD right now, but has Telstra lined...

The NBN is well on its way. Only this month, my area is starting construction according to the rollout map. But for those areas that are won’t have a fibre connection, you will be able to boost your NBN Fixed Wireless Download Speed from 12Mbps to in excess of 50Mbps and 25Mbps uploads with Fusion Broadband. The process is simple, and is currently available on...