Aaron Weiss

Three cheers for free Wi-Fi! Earlier this month, Verizon joined a small but growing list of broadband providers who have extended free wireless hotspot access to FiOS and DSL subscribers. To be fair, perhaps Verizon deserves only two cheers, because the service is available only to Windows-based devices and requires their own proprietary software to […]

A diminishing few of us can still remember a time when you had to talk on a phone whose handset was tethered to the phone itself with a six foot cord. Forget about pacing around the house, let alone having a conversation while gardening in the backyard. It’s almost just as quaint now to think […]

At the risk of imperiling my credibility here, allow me to make a confession—I am not much of an early adopter. Early adopters are necessary for the technology eco-system. We all benefit from their bold and courageous trendiness. But early adoption is hard on the wallet. And so it wasn’t until recently that I got […]

Last month, we celebrated the arrival of spring with a warning about how leaves can affect your wireless signal. With summer temperatures rising, Mother Nature isn’t done with us yet. Can heat and humidity affect your wireless network? Many anecdotal reports suggest increased problems with wireless links in hot and humid conditions. To be fair, […]

April showers bring May flowers—and also, if you live in the northern climes, leaves. In the northeastern US, everything turns green in May, which for us humans is inspiring and invigorating. But if you are a wireless router associating with clients throughout the great outdoors, leaves can be your worst enemy. Unfortunately, mother nature has […]

Many years ago I thought that Alex Trebek was the smartest man in the world. After all, he knew the answers to everything! Well, it turns out the answers are fed to him. I know, right? Who knew? Now I wonder who told him to shave his mustache. My point is, it only seemed like […]

What’s in a name? Is a printer that also scans, copies, and faxes, an MFP—a multifunction printer—or an AIO—an all-in-one printer? It’s starting to look like the “AIO” marketing label is pushing aside the stodgy-sounding “MFP.” The Lexmark X7675 AIO bundles the aforementioned capabilities plus wireless networking and support for myriad memory cards into an […]

This month the Wi-Fi Guru laughs in the face of superstition. It is episode 13, you see, and if we were an airplane we might skip row 13. If we were an apartment building we might not have a 13th floor. If we were a residential street there would be no house marked number 13. […]

Last spring we reviewed HP’s entry-level color laser MFP, the CM1312nfi. At $499 the printer packed in a lot of features, including a memory card reader and color LCD screen, and most notably, impressive color output quality. Oriented toward the consumer market, though, it was a little slow for heavy-duty use. The new CM2320n, on […]

February is the month you confess your love to your wireless router and beg it to explain why it won’t love you back. But it will! You just need to talk to it the way that wireless routers like to be talked to. For example, chocolate and flowers are bad ideas—the chocolate will melt and […]

Happy New Year, people with wireless networking problems. If your New Years’ resolution is to solve your wireless woes, you’ve come to the right place! If your resolution is to stop smoking, lose weight, get fit and sell your house in this market, you’ll find help with all that stuff elsewhere online—if you can get […]

Seeing as this month of December finds us with a collection of questions related to extending wireless range, just imagine who would benefit most from a seamless global Wi-Fi network: Santa! You can imagine how frustrating it must be for him, zipping and zooming from one corner of the world to another, trying to manage […]