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This might seem like an even bargain a year or two down the road, when a new over-the-air standard called ATSC 3.0 launches. Among its key enhancements is that it can carry internet content alongside traditional TV broadcasts. That means you may be able to stream some shows right over the air.Though it can be useful to have an antenna on your roof, indoor antennas work well in many situations. What’s more, they look better than the old-fashioned rabbit-ear models with the tinfoil flags that people used to add to them. Companies such as Antennas Direct and Mohu offer new, more attractive designs, including flat models that can be painted to match a wall.
One new option for many people this year is watching the game on Locast, a service that streams over-the-air broadcast channels for free via the internet.Sound too good to be true? It might be. The company streams these stations without paying fees for the content. It's not the first time this has been tried—Aereo and FilmOn did the same thing, capturing broadcasts using antennas and streaming the signal to consumers. Those two operations eventually shut down after the companies lost legal challenges from broadcasters.
The difference, though, is that Locast is a nonprofit company that argues it is operating under an exception in federal copyright law. Sign up for the service and you'll see that instead of charging consumers directly, Locast asks for donations. Locast has been available in seven major markets, including Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, New York, and Philadelphia. But just this week, in time for the Super Bowl, it added Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
To use the service, go to the Locast website, click on Live TV, and choose a location from the available cities. (You'll need to enable geolocation in your browser's settings.) You have to create an account before you can start streaming. Several cable-style streaming services, such as DirecTV Now, FuboTV, Hulu With Live TV, Sony PlayStation Vue, and YouTube TV, offer CBS in many markets. (CBS is still notably absent from the Sling TV service.) Most of the services cost about $45 a month, but all offer some type of free trial, typically for seven days. (YouTube TV has an especially generous three-month free trial period.)
In addition, CBS has its own streaming service, CBS All Access. The ad-supported service costs $6 a month—or you can pay $10 a month for an ad-free version—and it, too, has a free seven-day trial.Two things to remember, though. One, CBS isn't available in every market on every service, so check to see if it's included in the channel lineup in your area. The other is that you generally have to give a credit card number for the free trial, and your card will get charged if you don't cancel before the trial period expires.
But who knows: Maybe you'll find one of these streaming services satisfying enough to join the legion of cord-cutters who have abandoned their traditional pay TV packages.
New testing by Consumer Reports shows important differences in how routers from popular brands handle digital security.Some of the 29 routers we examined this spring and summer build in important safeguards, such as automatically updating their firmware with the latest security improvements. Such protections, available in routers including the Synology RT2600ac and Google Wifi AC1200 Dual-Band can make it harder for hackers to access a home network.
Other models we tested were missing some basic protections that Consumer Reports endorses. For example, 11 routers—including the TP-Link Archer C7 AC1750 and the Netgear AC1600 (R6260)—accept very weak passwords that many websites and workplace accounts would reject."Routers are a critical part of our homes,” says Robert Richter, who oversees security and privacy testing for Consumer Reports. “They are the conduit through which all of your data travels, so it’s crucial that we look closely at how they handle security. We hope both consumers and the industry pay close attention to our findings.”
Consumer Reports has been publishing router ratings for years, but we've now made the tests tougher, screening for approximately 60 different indicators of good security and privacy practices, along with about 100 data points used to evaluate speed, ease of use, and other characteristics.The new router ratings are one of the first outputs of the Digital Lab, a new Consumer Reports initiative that will enable us to test more devices for digital security and privacy. The router testing protocol draws on the Digital Standard, a set of principles for how digital products and services can best protect consumer rights.
Our router testing program looks at several factors, including security, privacy, and performance.We evaluate routers in the lab on a long list of characteristics. For instance, we check whether a router protects against known security vulnerabilities and whether certain questionable networking protocols are turned off by default. We examine the routers’ privacy policies to see whether manufacturers explain how they handle consumer data.
Of course, we also measure how quickly routers transmit data over a variety of distances. After all, a safe and secure router won’t do you much good if it’s too slow to reliably stream Netflix. We also evaluate ease of setup and other characteristics.Modern routers for the home come in two basic types, and we evaluate both.For our current ratings, we tested 20 traditional routers, which create a WiFi network using a single device, and also evaluated nine mesh routers, which use multiple units to cover larger homes. Mesh routers tend to be more expensive because you typically buy multiple pieces of equipment in the same package.

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