Engenius has just announced the release of a couple of multi-Gigabit switches, the ECS5121FP and the ECS5212, but the new family of switches will be expanded throughout the year with models featuring (most likely) more number of ports. The multi-gig switches are going to become the norm in a shorter period of time than expected, … Read more
The novelty of the WiFi mesh systems is slowly fading away and the market now offers a far larger variety of devices to choose from, but, while a Netgear Orbi or an Eero system may be the first options that a tech savvy person will take into account, the regular user may still be a … Read more
The Netgear Orbi and Eero still remain among the most popular WiFi systems on the market and both Eero and Orbi have greatly influenced the way a WiFi system should look and perform, thus helping pave the way for the future of the home networking devices. And that’s truer for Eero more than the Orbi, … Read more
About four years ago, I asked myself whether the Eero Home WiFi System will revolutionize the home networking market and set a blueprint for how the future of the routers will look like or if it’s just another set of expensive wireless repeaters. A year later, I could definitely see that Eero’s crowdfounded project was … Read more
The Raspberry Pi Zero is currently the most affordable device from the Pi series and it was designed for both lighter projects where a Pi 3 B+ or Pi 4 would be severely underused and to help people in disadvantaged communities to build low-cost robots or to simply run a very basic OS. When I … Read more
After the Raspberry Pi 4 was released towards the middle of 2019, the better hardware got everybody excited about the prospect of running more powerful applications, but the increased performance always comes with more power draw, which, in turn, means a higher temperature. 52PI Ice Tower Cooler SeeedStudio.com Check Offer Amazon.com Check Offer This had … Read more
Currently, the mouse is pretty much the default input device for computers, but there has always been an alternative to it in the form of the trackball and it’s actually older than the mouse itself. With a history of over 70 years, the trackball migrated from the military into the consumer market, and, while it … Read more
The WiFi 6 (802.11ax) standard was introduced a bit over a year ago and ever since, the manufacturers have been in a race to quickly adopt this new technology and offer a far better wireless experience, while also being able to handle a significantly larger number of clients. We have already seen some early stage … Read more
It’s been close to a year since Viltrox decided to enter the lens market with its first 85mm 1.8 lens and challenge some of the already established proprietary solutions, but can a third-party product really match (or even outperform) the performance of the more expensive brand lens such as the Sony 85mm FE 1.8 (or … Read more
The last decade has seen a significant shift towards the adoption of affordable solutions for larger and more complex networks, especially regarding the SMB market, in an attempt to mimic the large enterprise networks at a fraction of the cost. One of the first to have disrupted the market was Ubiquiti which has been the … Read more