Trends, market shifts, and analysis of the broadband and CPE landscape.
Your next router costs more — and there are fewer to choose from. The reason isn’t the brand; it’s a memory shortage driven by AI, hitting the cheap, legacy DRAM that routers actually depend on. Part 1 of The Memory Squeeze.
MLO is Wi-Fi 7’s headline feature — and the most misunderstood. A CPE insider explains the two versions of Multi-Link Operation, which one your phone is likely using, and when it helps.
There’s a box somewhere in your home — maybe in a closet, maybe blinking on a shelf — that you call “the router.” Or you call it “the modem.” Or “the Wi-Fi thing.” And every month, there’s a good chance you’re paying a fee to rent it, on a line item most people never question….
Wi-Fi 7 is the new headline. Wi-Fi 6 is the one in almost every house. The honest answer to which you need: most people, not yet. Some people, urgently. What follows is how I would walk a friend through this decision. The part that actually matters, and the part the marketing tends to skip. A…