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More devices in the home are internetconnected than ever before. However, with laptops and tablets, smart TVS and gaming consoles often positioned some distance from your router, you can be left with sluggish browsing, slow streaming and frustrating connection drop-outs.
The new Gigagate Wifi Bridge from devolo overcomes this issue by delivering fast internet from your router to the locations where it is required.
Introducing the devolo Gigagate Wifi Bridge
Capable of reaching speeds of 2 Gbps, devolo’s Gigagate Wifi Bridge brings the full power of your internet connection exactly where it’s needed in the home: for smart TVS, PCS, tablets, gaming consoles and other multimedia devices.
Consisting of two main components, the Base and the Satellite, the Gigagate uses the newest 4x4 Quantenna Technology to provide an effective, targeted connection via the 5GHZ band. You plug the Base station into your router and the Satellite unit in the media corner of your living room or office and away you go! The Satellite unit features a high-speed gigabit LAN port for high-performance devices and four Fast Ethernet ports to provide additional connectivity for cabled-base devices, as well as offering 2.4GHZ Wifi at up to 300Mbps.
The Gigagate is a powerful solution for the modern connected home. It provides ample capacity and connection options for all multimedia devices where you use them.
Test it for yourself
We’re teaming up with devolo to give six readers the chance to review Gigagate and share their feedback in the pages of Computeractive. For your chance to be a guest reviewer tell us your current Wi-fi/ home network setup and speeds, where your router is currently placed and what devices you’ll be looking to connect via Gigagate.
Submit your info by email to editor@ computeractive.co.uk with ‘gigagate’ in the subject line. Deadline for emails is 10 August. We’ll reply to the six testers selected by 15 August. You will be able to keep the Gigagate.
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