High speed at home points to a number of gadgets (8)
I believe the answer is:
machines
'a number of gadgets' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'high speed at home points' is the wordplay.
'high speed' becomes 'mach' (I have seen 'Speed of sound ' mean 'mach' so perhaps 'speed' could also mean 'mach'. I am not sure about the 'high' bit.).
'at home' becomes 'in' ('I'm in' can mean 'I'm at home').
'points' becomes 'es' (E is an example).
'mach'+'in'+'es'='MACHINES'
'to' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for machines that I've seen before include "Appliances" , "Cars, robots etc." , "Strange schema in the devices with moving parts" .)