Printers & Routers

The printer you use twice a month may be the most expensive one you own — inkjets can burn half their ink on cleaning cycles and clogs while they sit idle. Here are the all-in-ones built to wait patiently instead.

Mesh Wi-Fi systems now run from $169 to well over $1,000, and router makers pitch them to everyone. Here's how to tell whether your square footage, walls, and wiring actually justify one.

Every router lets you kick a device off your Wi-Fi, but "block" means several different things, and the classic MAC filter has a loophole modern phones drive straight through. Here's how it actually works on NETGEAR, TP-Link, ASUS, and eero.

Your phone already has a fast cellular connection. Here's how to feed it into a real router — over a USB cable or wirelessly — so every device in the house gets online.

Gaming routers promise to slash your ping with RGB lights and a "gaming mode" button. The physics say most of your latency lives outside your house — here's what these $400-to-$700 boxes can and can't actually fix.

A mail-order lab will print your 4x6 for about a dime. So does a $150 dye-sub gadget or a $750 photo inkjet still earn its place on the desk? We ran the numbers across every tier.

Hotels have turned internet access into a line item — per day, per device, or buried inside a $42 resort fee. A pocket-sized travel router logs in once and covers every gadget you packed.

Before you drop $400 on a mesh kit, work through the free fixes hiding inside the router you already own — placement, bands, channels, and the settings almost nobody touches.