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Bluetooth: this technology is more commonly used on portable devices such as mobile phones, headphones and laptops and it allows small amounts of data (up to and including music) to be transmitted from one Bluetooth device to another – hence it commonly being used for streaming music from a phone to headphones.

The nice thing about WiFi is that it’s wireless – you don’t have to run cables everywhere for your TV or Echo to connect to the internet.

Your internet router broadcasts a WiFi signal around your house, allowing a whole host of devices (from phones to TVs, and Kindles to Amazon Echos!) to connect to the internet via WiFi. Wait, love – really?! Well, it used to be quite temperamental although in recent years it’s got increasingly stable. WiFi: WiFi is the standard we all know and love.For more detailed explanations, check out the specific sections later on. But either way, I wanted to briefly run through them below. Most of us have heard of WiFi and Bluetooth, and you may also have seen ‘Zigbee’ mentioned if you’ve looked into Philips Hue or the Amazon Echo Plus.

My Philips Hue v2 Bridge ‘speaks’ Zigbee, not WiFi.