What Are Mesh Wi-Fi Systems, and How Do They Work?

Did You Know? The safety lever on a hand grenade, the lever the soldier holds down after removing the pin, but before throwing it, is commonly referred to as the “spoon” due to its shape. Geek Trivia The Square Of Cloth Found On The Headrests Of Many Airplane and Train Seats Is Called? An Antimacassar → A Sail Patch → An Oil Guard → A Sanitary Square → Advertisement Free eBook: Crypto 101 Want to know how to exploit a common cryptographic flaw or forge administrator cookies, recover passwords? This is an introductory course on cryptography, freely available for programmers of all ages and skill levels. It comes with everything you need to understand complete systems such as SSL/TLS, block ciphers, stream ciphers, hash functions, message authentication codes, public key encryption, key agreement protocols, and signature algorithms.Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Heterogeneous Network A Heterogeneous Network (a.k.a. Heterogeneous Environment) is a network that uses (blends) computers, devices, hardware, operating systems, software, and/or databases from different manufacturers and vendors into a larger working whole. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. The Trillion Internet Observations Showing How Global Sleep Patterns Are Changing The way we use the Internet is beginning to reveal human behavior patterns on a previously unimaginable scale. [MIT Technology Review] The high-tech war on science fraud The problem of fake data may go far deeper than scientists admit. Now a team of researchers has a controversial plan to root out the perpetrators [The Guardian] What I Learned After Banning Screens From My Home for a Month For the past 31 days, the moment I stepped over the threshold of my apartment door, I was entering a screen-free zone. No TV. No computer. No phone. [Motherboard] How to Change Drive Icons in Windows If you’ve ever wished you could change the icon Windows uses for a drive in File Explorer, then you’re in luck. We have two ways to show you how to do just that. Read This Article → How to Use Google Drive on Linux When Google introduced Google Drive in April 24, 2012, they promised Linux support “coming soon.” That was nearly five years ago. Google still hasn’t released an official version of Google Drive for Linux, but there are other tools to fill the gap. Read This Article → What Are Mesh Wi-Fi Systems, and How Do They Work? If your home’s Wi-Fi network has dead spots, or doesn’t reach across your entire house, then you might have recently considered getting a mesh Wi-Fi system. They’ve skyrocketed in popularity, but what exactly is mesh Wi-Fi and how is it different than a traditional Wi-Fi extender? Read This Article → How to Watch the 2017 Super Bowl Without a Cable Subscription It’s that time of year again: time for the Super Bowl. What do you do if you don’t have a cable or satellite subscription? Don’t worry: there are plenty of ways to tune into the Big Game. Read This Article → How to Set Up Your New Chromecast Google’s Chromecast is one of the easiest, cheapest ways to stream just about anything on your TV. Here’s how to set it up. Read This Article → How to Update or Install Mac App Store Software From the Terminal There’s no getting around it: the Mac App Store is slow. If you try to avoid opening it whenever possible, you’re probably pretty annoyed when you see the update notification in the menu bar. You’ve got to open the App Store, click the “Updates” button, and wait while the application is “Checking for Updates.” Read This Article → How to Get Rid of Avast’s Notifications, Sounds, and Bundled Software Avast is an unusually noisy antivirus application. It speaks notifications aloud, displays ads, and bundles a lot of additional software. You can disable some (or all) of these annoyances to quiet Avast down. Read This Article → How to Assign a Persistent Drive Letter to a USB Drive in Windows If you use multiple USB drives, you’ve probably noticed that the drive letter can be different each time you plug one in. If you’d like to assign a static letter to a drive that’s the same every time you plug it in, read on. Read This Article → How to Remove Leading and Trailing Spaces on Lines in Microsoft Word If you've worked with too many documents in which others have used spaces to align text and images, you know it can be very time consuming to manually remove the extra spaces from the beginning and end of each line. Read This Article → How to Make the Most of Your Sling TV Service Sling TV has been a huge catalyst in allowing users to let go of traditional cable companies and move forward with an all-streaming-all-the-time model. If you’re one of the millions who have made the switch—or are one of the millions who are considering making said switch—then you’ll want to make the most of your new streaming service. Read This Article → Stop Fussing About Read Receipts Let's be real. As soon as you send a text message, your recipient has probably read it. So why does everyone care so much about whether an app tells them that you’ve read their messsage? Read This Article → What Is a “Chipset”, and Why Should I Care? You’ve probably heard the term “chipset” tossed around when talking about new computers, but what exactly is a chipset, and how does it affect your computer’s performance? Read This Article → Advertisement Download Hacking For Dummies, 5th Edition ($20 Value) FREE For a Limited Time Is hacking something left up to the bad guys? Certainly not! Hacking For Dummies, 5th Edition is a fully updated resource that guides you in hacking your system to better protect your network against malicious attacks. This revised text helps you recognize any vulnerabilities that are lurking in your system, allowing you to fix them before someone else finds them.Click here to download