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Andrew Matthews/PA Images via Getty Images Amazon Sidewalk is launching in the US as an opt-out feature that will connect Echo and Ring doorbells to any nearby Alexa device, even those owned by your neighbors. Amazon said Sidewalk uses WiFi from neighbors to create "a shared network that helps devices work better," but some raised privacy concerns. Amazon users are being automatically opted into Sidewalk, a feature that will connect Alexa devices to nearby WiFi networks, even those owned by someone else. It allows nearby devices to use a portion of a neighbor's WiFi bandwidth, so that devices can have more range.
Alexa can now be slowed down and sped up after a new update was released on the Echo smart speakers.
If your Wi-Fi speed is driving you crazy, you can do these things to beef it up.
Users on the Google Product Forums have reported that some problems with some of Google’s smart devices. It appears that these devices are crashing certain Wi-Fi networks. While the original complaints were limited to Google Home Max users, it has been reported that similar issues have been found to affect users of other Google products including Chromecast. 9to5 Google has reported that the company has now implemented a fix that should solve this problem across all affected devices.
some Google devices could be the cause of slower wi-fi speeds o users home network. an anonymous user in Google Home Help Forum started a thread after noticing their Wi-Fi network had started dropping out when they came home with an Android device. As an experiment, the user disconnected their Google Cast-enabled devices from the network, resulting in A stable network that has had no dropouts or problems since. the user noticed many other posts discussing similar issues, all from around the same time. Now that the issue is known, some router manufacturers have already offered instructions on how to roll back to earlier versions of their firmware that protect against the problem.