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I tested the 160MHz Wi-Fi "hack" and it made my network worse

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Published Jun 17, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT There's a Wi-Fi trick floating around tech forums that promises to dramatically boost your wireless speeds. I tried it, and came away with more questions than answers—most of them wondering about why it keeps getting recommended. What's this hack about? The so-called 160MHz Wi-Fi hack involves manually changing your router's channel width from the default 80MHz to 160MHz in the 5GHz band.
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Open-source Office alternatives are good until they aren't—here's where they fail

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I spent a month living inside LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, and every well-regarded open-source Office alternative I could find. Here's what I learned — and why I quietly opened my wallet at the end of it. What open-source alternatives are there? Credit: Lucas Gouveia/How-To Geek The open-source productivity space is far more mature than most people give it credit for.
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I built my first PC in 5 years, and I was shocked by what actually changed

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I took a five-year break from building PCs and came back feeling like a complete beginner when my sister asked me to build one for her. Here's what actually changed, what didn't, and how I found my footing again. Has anything changed? The honest answer is: quite a bit, but not in a way that makes past knowledge useless. The biggest shift I had to wrap my head around was the platform landscape.
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