Thread border routers play a crucial role in connecting low-power Thread networks to your home’s IP network, such as Wi-Fi or Ethernet, making sure smooth communication across your smart home devices.

Visualization of a smart home ecosystem with virtual icons floating in front of a woman holding a phone - Gorodenkoff/Getty Images While Thread devices can seamlessly communicate with each other ...

Matter and Thread smart home explained for 2026: what each one does, how they work together, which devices you can buy and ...

If you're a smart home user or on the path to becoming one, you've probably heard the buzzwords of Thread, Zigbee, and Matter thrown around by various manufacturers and even seen all three names ...

It's not a crime to use your ISP's router, but you may be selling your home internet short.

SmartThings, Samsung Electronics’s global connected living platform, has announced that it is one of the first major smart home ecosystems to support two-way Thread network unification, enabling users ...

Smart home devices that connect over Thread should have a much more stable network thanks to Thread 1.4 support in tvOS 26. Thread is an IP-based wireless protocol that connects primarily smart home ...

The new Thread Tools app gives you ‘visibility’ into your network to help troubleshoot smart homes. The new Thread Tools app gives you ‘visibility’ into your network to help troubleshoot smart homes ...

If you own, read about, or manage a lot of smart home equipment, you've probably heard of Thread. Thread is a low-power wireless network that lets smart-home devices talk directly to each other in a ...