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Here’s some excellent news in the fight between USB-C vs Lightning. These simple connectors keeping your device plugged in and charged have for years represented the choice between good and, well, evil. If that sounds a bit too heavy, let me put it this way: the (tech) world is about …
The TRENDnet TEW-921DAP AX1800 dual-band Wi-Fi 6 PoE+ access point is an expensive version of the entry-level NETGEAR WAX214. It has more to offer and costs almost double at around $150. Neither will give you much to brag about in performance; both are modest hardware. As wireless access points, they …
And I’m back. If you didn’t notice, I hadn’t posted anything new for over a week. That was not out of laziness, writer’s block, a long hangover, or any of those usual suspects. Our summer break — first in years — in Maui was as memorable as expected, possibly even …
On April 26, 2022, Samsung released the T7 Shield — a new variant of its flagship portable solid-state drives (SSDs), the T7 Touch, and T7 that came out in January and July 2020. For the most part, the new mobile storage device is essentially the same as the T7 version …
The TRENDnet TPE-TG350 5-Port Unmanaged 2.5Gbps PoE+ switch is definitely behind its 10Gbps cousin, the TEG-S750, in performance. But for a PoE power-sender, its entry-level Multi-Gig grade makes sense. Presently, even the fastest PoE devices, such as Wi-Fi 6 or 6E access points, only have 2.5Gbps or slower ports. But …
Synology’s first router in years, the RT6600ax, is finally available today. And, like the Ubiquiti UDR, it’s a near-perfect Wi-Fi 6 machine that does not have a lot of love for Multi-Gig users. For the rest, the new router is as good as can be. And its support for the …
After five months in public beta, the latest version of the popular DiskStation Manager NAS operating system, the DSM 7.1, is officially available today, May 10, 2022, per Synology. That’s the good news. The not-so-good is Surveillance Station 9.0 — slated to be a major upgrade of version 8.2 — …
The TRENDnet TEG-S750 Multi-Gig Unmanaged switch is almost everything I wished its cousin, the TEG-S762, had. Instead of mixing 10Gbps and 2.5Gbps ports, it goes straight up 10Gbps. The way Multi-Gig works, these ports also support the lower speed grades (5Gbps, 2.5Gbps, 1Gbps, 100Mbps.) On the downside, TRENDnet TEG-S750 has …
