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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.