February 24th, 2021
Ring
The next generation of Ring’s smart home doorbells is here, with better sound, a bigger field of vision and, most interestingly, radar. The Ring Video Doorbell Pro 2 replaces its immediate predecessor as the flagship of the range, offering new features dubbed 3D Motion Detection and Bird’s Eye View. Both harness the new radar sensor with a range of up to 30 feet to better identify and track people approaching your home. The former is designed to make motion detection far more accurate, while the latter uses radar to track a person’s movement across your front yard in real time.
Linksys is taking the wraps off its latest mesh router offering at CES 2021, the Linksys AXE8400 Wi-Fi 6E Mesh System.
Linksys AXE8400
The new Linksys AXE8400 Wi-Fi 6E Mesh System is a mesh system that will yield benefits for households with both Wi-Fi 6e devices and non-Wi-Fi 6e devices alike. Each router is a stark white rectangular column, similar to its Velop routers.
Hardware-wise, it is powered by a 2.2GHz quad-core processor and 1GB of RAM. It has nine internal antennas, four LAN ports, a USB 3.0 port, and a 5-Gigabit WAN port. This router has a tri-band dynamic backhaul that allows the router to utilize the 6GHz spectrum for the backhaul between nodes even if no Wi-Fi 6e-enabled devices are in the home. At the moment no Apple devices directly support Wi-Fi 6e.