Your router is the slowest thing you own
People upgrade to gigabit internet and keep the box the ISP sent in 2019. The bottleneck moved indoors years ago, and no speed test will tell you.
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Technology
Hardware, software and the decisions behind them.
Independent coverage of the hardware, platforms and infrastructure that shape how we work — with an eye on what the announcements actually change.
The case for buying last year's laptop
The gap between this year's laptop and last year's is smaller than the gap between their prices. Knowing which generations broke that rule is the whole skill.
How USB-C finally won, and what it cost to get there
A single connector took eleven years to become genuinely universal. The delay was not technical, and the fix was not innovation.
