All things relating to home networking, from network wiring to Wi-Fi and more.
Your DNS server is the gateway to your online life, including your security and privacy. Here’s how you can take a bit more control of it.
Since its first availability in the US in 2018, 5G NR has slowly become the wireless solution for those living in areas without traditional land-based broadband infrastructure, namely cable or fiber-optic. And even if you already have an excellent cable plan, 5G can also be a backup for high availability. …
Summer is here, and many of you are considering a travel router for your upcoming trip. While that’s a sensible thing to do, here’s an alternative: How about turning that inseparable laptop of yours into a mobile “router”? Among other things, that will help you pack a bit lighter. In …
The UniFi 5G Backup (model U5G-US or U5G-EU, depending on the market), which Ubiquiti announced and made available today, is a stripped-down version of the previous UniFi 5G Max (U5G-Max): it’s compact, less capable, and significantly more affordable. The new PoE-powered add-on modem is not designed to deliver top 5G speeds, …
Standard access points (APs) are excellent options to build a robust Wi-Fi system, preferably with a non-Wi-Fi router. However, not all APs are created equal, and if you need more than one unit, it’s best to use hardware from the same ecosystem. Among popular networking brands, Ubiquiti’s UniFi is arguably …
The UniFi U7 Pro XG Wall (model U7-Pro-XG-Wall) is a tri-band Wi-Fi 7 access point with a 10Gbps PoE+ uplink port. As such, it’s currently the best Wi-Fi 7 wall-mount access point in the UniFi family. Here’s the bottom line: The U7 Pro XG Wall offers the best combo of …
A Wi-Fi range extender and a Wi-Fi access point differ only by how they connect to the existing network. The latter uses a network cable, which can be infrastructure-prohibitive, whereas the former is always much more readily applicable since it uses, well, the air. Wi-Fi range extender: What they are …
Here’s the web interface of the ASUS RP-AX56 when working in the Access Point mode. Note the similarity to that of any ASUS router.
