When Should You Actually Replace Your Home Router?
1. Age is not the boss—stability is 3–5 years is the average life, not a deadline. If your 2017 box still covers every room and hits 90 % of your plan speed, keep it. Just reboot it once a week and blow the dust out of the vents. When...
USB 2.0 vs USB 3.0 – What You Feel in the Real World
1. Speed USB 2.0: 480 Mb/s on paper → 25-30 MB/s in Windows. USB 3.0: 5 Gb/s on paper → 80-110 MB/s with a spinning disk, 300-400 MB/s with a fast SSD. A 1 GB film: ~35 s on 2.0, ~3 s on 3.0. 2. Power 2.0:...
Wi-Fi Repeater “Not Working”? You Probably Parked It in the Wrong Socket
A repeater is the cheapest way to cure a dead spot, but “plug in and forget” only works if you park the thing in the right place. Move it ten feet and you can turn a £20 miracle into a £20 paper-weight. Follow the three-step ruler: 1. Signal must be...
How Far Does Your Home...
Most people have no idea how far their Wi-Fi signal...
Give Your Old Router a...
Upgrading to Wi-Fi 6? Don’t shove the old box in...
5 Things You Didn’t Know...
That square-shaped USB socket on the back of your router...