News & blogs

Combining Wi-Fi & mobile: Meet Speedify

I admit I’m still trying to get my head around the perspectives on this little app – but here it goes: Speedify is a VPN-type app that will allow you to combine the data streams of Wi-Fi and mobile to ‘get faster Internet’, the company says. I’ve been trying out the app at home for […]

Wi-FM: The dead simple fix to slow Wi-Fi

Wi-FM: You may not have heard about this, but I like the idea so much that I just last week interviewed it’s inventor, Mr. Aleksander Kuzmanovic of Northwestern U. on Wi-Fi NOW TV (you can watch the episode below). Yes, nearly all of us living in high-rises or densely-populated areas have the same problem: Dozens of […]

Here’s why 2016 will be the Year of Wi-Fi

What a great way to start 2016: There’s been so much good news flooding the Wi-Fi industry last week that it’s hard to keep up. Here are my top 4 reasons why 2016 will be the year of Wi-Fi: The LinkNYC project is finally underway – and don’t underestimate what this could mean for City Wi-Fi not just […]

IoT without a license: Wi-Fi Alliance kicks off HaLow

We’re guessing that nobody out there will disagree: Billions of things will be connected to the Internet and it will usher in a brave new world of – well – stuff we can hardly imagine. Thus far, at least half a dozen competing standards have been touting for early world domination in IoT. Here comes […]

Is LinkNYC the blueprint for City Wi-Fi everywhere?

Update January 20th: We did expect the LinkNYC Wi-Fi (802.11ac) network to be fast. In fact, it’s insanely fast. According to this report by Gizmodo, the new ‘kiosks’ now deliver some 436 Mbps in download speeds – fifty times faster than Starbucks Wi-Fi and about ten times faster than NYC Wi-Fi at the train platforms. Now we […]