It’s been about three years since Ubiquiti released the dual-band AmpliFi HD WiFi system and the public immediately fell in love with that tiny box and its circular display (while the additional mesh nodes were a bit of a hit and miss), but the design wasn’t the only great thing about this product, as Ubiquiti … Read more
The Parental Controls are a very important part of every router which assume the role of filtering the content that all the members of the family can access (blocking adult or malicious websites), as well as when the Internet connection will be enabled (so your children won’t stay up too late on schooldays). The Parental … Read more
The Parental Controls are a set of features which are usually an integrated part of a router (and mainly include traffic filtering and scheduling) but it’s not always clear how to properly set them up, especially for the users that aren’t familiar with the networking terms, so, if you have an Asus router and need … Read more
The Zyxel NSG50 is a part of the managed security gateway series and it’s the final piece towards a complete Nebula Cloud network solution, designated for routing purposes, connecting the internal network consisting of other Zyxel access points or Ethernet switches (and not only) to the outside network (so, essentially, it will work as a … Read more
The Synology MR2200ac is the third wireless router released by the Taiwanese company (very popular world-wide especially for its NAS line) and this time, we’re dealing with a tri-band WiFi mesh-capable device. With the launch of the 802.11ax WiFi standard, I noticed that the release rate of new mesh systems has significantly slowed down (the … Read more
The Synology RT2600ac is the second wireless router released by the widely popular NAS (network Attached Storage) manufacturer and the successor to the RT1900ac, which was the first incursion into the router market from the Taiwanese company and it proved to be successful since Synology decided that it’s worth diversifying its product line and enforce … Read more
In this article we’re going to explore some of the most common methods of cascading routers in order to isolate your smart devices from the rest of the network. The reason why you’ll want to keep your IoT devices isolated is because most manufacturers care little or not at all about implementing some type of … Read more
The Linksys WRT3200ACM is among the two most powerful wireless routers from the Linksys WRT series (along with the WRT32X) and a successor to one of the most popular AC1900 router, the WRT1900ACS. As the name suggests, the WRT3200ACM is an AC3200 device, but this may be misleading for some, because we are not dealing … Read more
Very recently Linksys went under fire because of an info disclosure exploit which seems to affect around 20,000 devices and, since the manufacturer has yet to release a patch for its affected models, the only solution, so far, is to flash the routers with a custom firmware, such as OpenWRT (Project LEDE). If you want … Read more
In this article we’re going to explore some of the most popular (and easiest) ways to reset a Linksys router to the default factory settings (via software and hardware means). Some of the reason why you may want to restore a router to its default settings is when you want to do a fresh installation … Read more