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ViaSat's Exede satellite broadband service has officially launched, with an entry-level package that starts at $50 a month and promises "feels-like-fiber" performance. Buried among the gadgets, superthin screen OLED TVs, and all the other products we saw at  CES  this year was something not terribly sexy-looking, but something that will potentially affect millions of people living in rural America. It's  Exede , a new satellite broadband service from ViaSat that just launched this week. Yes, you heard right,  satellite , those contraptions that orbit the earth, and until now a very sluggish way to receive Internet service (satellite has frequently been referred to as the Internet service of "last resort"). However, thanks to the launch of  ViaSat-1 , a next-generation satellite system that was launched in October of last year, satellite-based Internet service just got a lot more attractive, with ViaSat saying it will offer up to 12Mbps downstream a...

The EnGenius ESR300H High Power 300Mbps Wireless N router is supercompact, even with the 2 external antennas sticking up from its back. Speaking of a total letdown. I was very excited to get my hands on EnGenius' latest router, the  ESR300H --the first in EnGenius' new  XtraRange family --expecting to have some fun, at least with its range. There was no fun to be had at all. The ESR300H is a basic single-band wireless router with almost nothing to show for itself. If it had come out two years ago, it would have been a decent router. Now that the Wireless-N standard has fully matured, the ESR300H is far behind its time. The ESR300H is a simple single-band budget router with all ports supporting the regular 10/100 Ethernet standard. The router offers 300Mbps Wireless-N on the 2.4GHz band. It indeed showed some extra range, being able to broadcast a Wi-Fi signal farther than others of the same pricing. Effectively, however, in my testing, it should be used withi...