Open source firmware could bring your router back to life
Most people are quite happy with their home broadband routers, but sometimes you can be left wishing for features that simply aren’t available with your current hardware. Say your router comes with a USB port for connecting a printer, wouldn’t it be nice to also use that port for storage space, and share your data amongst all devices on your network? Maybe you want to be able to access your network remotely using a Virtual Private Network so that you can securely access your data or use services like BBC iPlayer while overseas.
Super speedy, but a little buggy
Like many, I’ve not bothered to source my own router since switching to Virgin’s fibre broadband service, even though the Netgear “SuperHub” that’s provided by Virgin is possibly one of the worst equipped routers ever made. Seriously, that thing is terrible, I live in a one bedroom flat and I still can’t get a WiFi signal in my bedroom even though the router is sat less than 10 metres away in the next room.
Ultimate media PC case?
The Mini-ITX PC standard has been around for a good few years now, but it’s become more important with the increase of media focused PCs’s in the home.
Cheap and cheerful home storage
Synology have become quite a big player in the NAS market in recent years, in fact at a recent press event we were shown a chart depicting some pretty impressive growth during one of the biggest financial crises the world has seen.
I’m leaving, on a jet plane
So, the last few weeks I’ve been sitting on some information and haven’t been able to share it until I got confirmation from my employer.
This was a triumph…
I’ve got a bit of a habit of being a bit too impulsive for my own good at times. I once bought a new car while my current one was being serviced, I started Tech Made Easy while bored one night in Budapest, and me and the missus are off to Nigeria to live from February next year.
Open world to the extreme.
Like most people, I was expecting something amazing from Rockstar when it comes to GTA5. After all, it’s already been delayed from the Spring until September because Rockstar wanted to make sure that it was the best game they could produce.
