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UniFi Dream Router 7 and UniFi Express 7 in a UniFi Whole Home WiFi Mesh setup with STR MLO as the wireless backhaul link.
ASUS’s ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro, first announced late last month alongside the non-Pro version, is poised to be available in the North American market—specifically, Canada and the US. It’s no clickbait: I’m looking at one right now and have photo proof. Apparently, ASUS has gotten conditional approval, as stated in … Continue Reading
The SANDISK NAS 800, unveiled late last month as part of Sandisk’s new storage portfolio, is the first PCIe Gen 5 internal solid-state drive (SSD) purpose-built for network-attached storage (NAS) servers. It’s also currently the only one of its kind, as Seagate seems to have phased out its NAS SSDs. … Continue Reading
Ubiquiti today introduced a new consumer-grade mesh category, the UniFi Whole Home WiFi Mesh. Everything you need to know about Ubiquiti’s UniFi Whole Home WiFi Mesh. Its first product is the UniFi Whole Home WiFi 7, which consists of bundled packs of the UniFi Express 7 (model UX7)—available as a … Continue Reading
Ubiquiti today announced the availability of its UniFi Travel Router Long-Range (model UTR-LR). As the name suggests, it’s an upgrade to the original UTR that came out late last year: it’s a UTR with a significant boost in range. In return, the UTR-LR is slightly thicker and a tad heavier. … Continue Reading
If you’ve been holding off on getting a Wi-Fi 7 router because Wi-Fi 8 is on the horizon, the wait is almost over. ASUS today announced its first round of Wi-Fi 8 hardware, featuring not one, not two, but three options: two standalone routers and one ZenWiFi mesh system. In … Continue Reading
As the model name suggests, the RT-BE90U is slightly below the previous RT-BE92U and proved less capable in real-world testing. However, it can still be an excellent alternative, even better in certain cases. Here’s the bottom line: For those living in a small home that needs only a single access … Continue Reading
Over the years, many of you have repeatedly asked me for recommendations on a Wi-Fi router (or mesh system) with “excellent Parental Controls.” I generally don’t have the answer because I deliberately don’t use this feature—and I’m a dad of three. In this post, I’ll explain what the Parental Controls … Continue Reading
