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Earlier in the year, I reviewed the new flagship WiFi 6E gaming router from Netgear, the RAXE500. This new technology is rolling down into more affordable models, and I have recently been checking out the new RAXE300. Netgear RAXE300 vs RAXE500 Specification To save you going over the table below, the RAXE300 is just a…
I have reviewed a few 4G and 5G routers over the years, including 4G and 5G mobile hotspots. It has become an increasingly viable option for home use. I am able to get over 100Mbit/s from Vodafone in my office, while the best I can get from BT Broadband VDSL is 56Mbps. If you live…
On Amazon, there are a growing number of companies selling either Cat 8 or Cat 7 cables. I have seen some Ugreen Cat 8 Ethernet cable posted on HotUKDeals a couple of times in the past year, and you always get people asking if it will help improve their Internet speed. Will Cat 8 Ethernet…
In the past few years, we have slowly started to see an improvement in the number of multi-gig switches. It started off with some affordable unmanaged 2.5GbE switches, but we are now starting to see quite a few 10GbE options. Most home users will have little need for such speeds. In the UK we are…
Multi-WAN routers have not been commonly used in the home environment, but with the work-from-home trend and the growing number of people making a living working online, the need for these routers is increasing. There are typically used in two ways, either as a load balancing router or failover. With load balancing, both WAN ports…
While most of us use WiFi to connect to the Internet now, it will never be as good as Ethernet and I will always use Ethernet whenever possible with my devices. However, from time to time, you may have a strange problem where the Internet doesn’t work even though it is plugged into via the…
The AVM FRITZ!Box 7590 AX was announced in May 2021 and is the WiFi 6 upgrade of the AVM FRITZ!Box 7590 I reviewed five years ago. I don’t personally use VDSL anymore, and I have switched all my WiFi to Zyxel access points, but I still use the FRITZ!Box 7590 is my main router because…
Sky is the second largest ISP after BT (PlusNet, EE) with over 6 million subscribers, and like all ISPs, they suffer from downtime or slow Internet from time to time. However, more often than not, slow Internet can be a result of something wrong with your router or poor Wi-Fi, rather than something wrong with…
[June 2022 Update] It has been a couple of years since I updated this guide. A lot of companies appear to have given up on VDSL routers but there are a few new good options. There are hundreds of routers on the market covering features and pricing to suit everyone. One specific feature set that…
BT Broadband is the largest ISP in the UK, and they also operate Plusnet, which they bought out in 2007. It is believed that BT have over 9 million customers, and they also own Openreach, which is the main provider of ADSL and Fibre broadband connection in the UK. Predicted Speeds If you have just…
The Linksys Hydra 6 and Linksys Atlas 6 are Linksys’ newest entry-level dual-band products in the company’s family of WiFi 6 mesh systems and come at the most affordable prices to date for the brand. “There is an increased need for wireless connectivity that can handle the influx of devices on home networks, and deliver…
MediaTek is the last of the three big vendors to announce its range of WiFi 7 chips. Qualcomm announced its WiFi 7 Networking Pro series at the start of May, and Broadcomm has four WiFi 7 products within its ecosystem which were announced back in April. While the development of WiFI 7 is ongoing and…
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