A wall-plate access point has a beauty of its own. It’s elegant if seen, otherwise easy to hide and it can completely eliminate any visible cable while also providing a WiFi connection. And that’s without needing any power socket or cable, just an Ethernet cable inside the wall. Of course, there is more and in … Read more
The EnGenius ECW520 is one of the most affordable WiFi 7 access points that the company currently offers and its aim was to offer enterprise-level features, while keeping the price tag underneath $200. And that’s perfectly fine, but we do have the 2x2x2 ECW526 available as well and recently, EnGenius has also released the affordable … Read more
I know I am a bit late to the party, but since there is little coverage of networking devices these days, I said why not test the TP-Link EAP773 myself? And so I got my hands on this slim half metal, half-plastic WiFi 7 access point that rivals Ubiquiti not only in terms of size, … Read more
I have retested the U7 Pro Max very recently and I was upset by the slow progress that Ubiquiti made towards the development of the MLO. Well, they did release a beta firmware that supports it and I also managed to finally make it work on the client end, so I had to run some … Read more
It’s fairly common to first release the better equipped device, as a sort of power display, so the Zyxel WBE660S that you see here is the most powerful WiFi 7 access point from Zyxel (at the moment of the writing) and yes, it has been released a few months before the NWA130BE. The latter did … Read more
I have been trying to make MLO work for about half a year and a few days ago, it finally happened, all stars aligned and I got to see this feature in action for the first time. Some smartphones could use it for quite some time, as well as some newer computers, but I don’t … Read more
Ubiquiti wanted to build a long range version of the U7 Pro and that’s how the U7 Pro Max came to be, offering a potentially better range due to improved antennas and we finally get 4×4 spatial streams for the 5GHz radio band. The 2.4 and the 6GHz configuration remains the same as on the … Read more
About a year ago EnGenius made the decision to divide its access point line, leaving the ECW series for enterprise-level users, while the FIT line was supposed to cater to the home or at the very most, the small businesses. EnGenius FIT6 Lite EngeniusTech.com Check Device It seems that this approach paid off, and EnGenius … Read more
This right here is the Zyxel NWA130BE and it’s most likely the main competitor to the Ubiquiti U7 Pro. The NWA130BE is actually the second WiFi 7 access point that Zyxel has made available and yes, it’s less equipped than its older sibling, but my current position is that you should not invest too much … Read more
The EnGenius ECW536 is one of the first WiFi 7 access point to enter the market and it’s also one the few to offer some of the most expected features of the new standard out of the box. I am talking about MLO (multi-link operation), a feature which Ubiquiti promises to add at a later … Read more