Wireless connectivity is so ubiquitous today that I sometimes forget it wasn't always like that. Then I remember that I've lived in houses where I needed a Wi-Fi extender to get a consistent signal in ...

It's a familiar scenario: you bought a top-tier Wi-Fi router, yet there's still that one corner of the house where the signal is weak. Even the best routers have their limits, but the signal has to ...

A Raspberry Pi board, a spare USB Wi-Fi adapter, and a few terminal commands can turn a credit-card-sized computer into a functioning wireless access point that rebroadcasts your router’s signal to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Natalie Bodrova / iStock / Getty Images As its name suggests, a Wi-Fi extender rebroadcasts an existing Wi-Fi signal. It connects ...