A sampling of networking gear from CES: TP-Link goes Wi-Fi 6, D-Link goes 5G

Enlarge / TP-Link's Deco X10 Wi-Fi 6 mesh product. (credit: TP-Link)

The halls of CES might be filled with voice assistants and OLED televisions, but few things make a bigger impact on your day-to-day experience with technology than your networking solution. And there were a bunch of announcements on that front this year.

5GHz routers, smart home, and mesh Wi-Fi systems are where most of the movement is, and many companies like D-Link and TP-Link are offering similar options-but of course, each has its own unique value propositions.

To get a sense of the landscape for home and office networking products (the consumer ones, mind you), let's look at what those two companies showed at CES this year.

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