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If your Wi-Fi speed is never fast enough for you, you may already want to look at routers going beyond AC2600. This ASUS RT-AC88U isn’t new, in fact, it became available back in late 2015, but since it recently came ...
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If you’re a small business, but Internet connectivity is absolutely critical for you, a cool dual-WAN router like the ASUS BRT-AC828 could be something you want to consider getting. With two WAN ports to connect to ...
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Sharing a quick post while waiting for pfSense 2.3.3 to update on my router. This update was released just two weeks ago. I hadn’t had the opportunity to upgrade earlier, having been terribly busy of late. There ...
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My Tomato router, actually a Linksys E3200 with Tomato software installed, was getting a bit outdated. I’ve let quite a number of software versions pass by, and a couple of days ago, I thought I should finally get around ...
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Linksys announced in July the availability of their EA8500 Max-Stream AC2600 MU-MIMO Gigabit Router. It’s the first wireless router to offer MU-MIMO, Qualcomm’s MU/EFX Wi-Fi technology which promises better ...
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I’m getting a lot more confident with router firmware upgrades. It might seem a little strange to hear this from a network engineering person, but I’ve been quite apprehensive of upgrading my pfSense router and ...
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Wireless broadband routers are quite commonplace in most homes these days. While most brands will position their flagships to compete on performance and features, sometimes we just need a simple router that will get the job done ...
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Over a year ago, I put Tomato, an alternative router firmware, on my Cisco Linksys E3200 wireless broadband router. Several new versions have been released since then, but I’ve been procrastinating about upgrading. I ...
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Most people who buy wireless broadband routers will just use it as the manufacturer designed it to be, with whatever firmware the manufacturer put in there. Some adventurous folks, however, replace that firmware in their wireless ...
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I’ve been mulling for some time about the option of building a standalone pfSense box. My current pfSense runs as a virtual instance inside an Ubuntu host. This interest was renewed again recently when, unfortunately, my ...
