The internet and your home network, explained in plain English

Home internet is sold on one number and experienced as something else entirely. The megabits on your bill describe the line into the building. What you feel is the wifi in the room you are sitting in, the latency to the server you are talking to, and the sixteen other things in the house using the connection at the same time. These pages separate those layers so you can tell which one is actually failing.

If something is slow right now, start with the diagnosis in the right order, then how to read a speed test properly. If the problem is one room rather than the whole house, it is a wifi problem: the bands and where the router sits explain most of it, and mesh, extender or cable settles what to buy. The tracking hub covers the other half of the web: who watches, how, and which of the tools sold as privacy actually deliver it.