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Review: KuWFi AX1800 PoE WAP
Up until very recently I’d used an old Cisco WAP121 as my wireless access point in my garden office, and for a long time it was absolutely fine. It was…
Review: TP-Link Archer C5400X
Appearance This is quite possibly the most ridiculous looking router I've ever seen. I work in the enterprise IT field, so my perception of what a router should look like…
Ultimate Home Server Part 6 – Download Server
We're now firmly in the realms of having a really usable server. It's storing our data with redundancy, it's accessible from other devices on our network and it's serving up…
Ultimate Home Server Part 4 – Setting up Network Shares
Now that we have our RAID array setup and working it would be nice if we could actually STORE some data on our home server. In this part I’m going to show you how you can setup some folders on your array from the command line and then share those folders across your network.
Once this is setup you’ll be able to drag and drop your files from any other Windows, Mac or Linux machine.
Why Your Home WiFi Sucks
WiFi has achieved the status of being pretty much ubiquitous with modern life. Yet you only have to go back a few years and the majority of devices used in the home still had a wired network connection to transmit and receive data. Unfortunately the truth about WiFi is that it simply can’t offer the performance, range and reliability of a wired network, and there are plenty of reasons why. Here are a few of them.
Why Your Commercial VPN Solution Sucks For Streaming Video
A Virtual Private Network is a great tool that was originally developed to allow remote workers to access their employers IT systems as if they were sitting in their office. The idea is that through some clever trickery your PC actually appears, for all intents and purposes, to be connected to your office network directly even though you could be literally anywhere else in the world.
REVIEW: D-LINK DIR-868L WIRELESS AC ROUTER
Faster than Wireless-N, but disappointing range Since moving in to our new place, we’ve really struggled to get a decent WiFi signal to all corners of the apartment. It’s a…
REVIEW: TP-LINK TL-WA890EA ENTERTAINMENT ADAPTER
Get rid of those unsightly network cables I’m still dreaming of a day when I’ll be able to cable out my home properly, so that every network-able device connects directly…
REVIEW: TRENDNET TPL-406E POWERLINE ADAPTER
Small, cheap, quick home networking
In the right circumstances Powerline devices are a great way to quickly and easy connect up your devices. The reason I say that is because the performance of such devices is heavily dependant on the quality of the cabling it’s used on. Most people have no issues, but in my experience you’ll never get anywhere near the speeds quoted on the box.