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Smarthome

What is a smart home? How do you create a network in your home? How do you pick a good Wi-Fi router? How do you manage and connect to your network using the devices and operating systems in your home? What kind of smart devices should you use in your home?

What is a Homegroup? How to use the Windows 7 Homegroup

  • tutorial
  • Codrut Neagu
  • 22.04.2021
The Homegroup is a Windows 7 feature that provides an easy way for sharing libraries, folders, and devices on small networks, such as that from your home. Accessing stuff shared with the Homegroup is easy and doesn’t require users to type in usernames and...

Mercusys MR70X review: Affordable Wi-Fi 6!

  • review
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 23.03.2021
Affordable Wi-Fi 6 routers are invading the market, and most of them also include support for WPA3 encryption. That’s a great thing! Gone are the days when you could only buy expensive Wi-Fi 6 routers. One affordable model is Mercusys MR70X. It covers all the basics people need, at...

How do I find my router's IP address? The complete guide

  • tutorial
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 11.03.2021
Have you ever found yourself in a situation when you wanted to configure a router, and you did not know its IP address? Therefore, you couldn’t connect to its administration user interface and change its settings. To help you out, we created this complete guide that covers finding...

Review ASUS RT-AX68U: A classic redesigned for Wi-Fi 6!

  • review
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 05.03.2021
ASUS RT-AX68U is the spiritual successor of a very popular wireless router: ASUS RT-AC68U. The new model has an elegant look, offering support for Wi-Fi 6, excellent security features, and an innovative VPN app for your mobile devices. If you want to know what you get when buying the...

TP-Link Archer AX20 review: Redefining value for money?

  • review
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 15.02.2021
TP-Link’s line-up of Wi-Fi 6 routers includes some exciting models with good hardware that are very reasonably priced. If you want a good mid-range model, you should look at the new TP-Link Archer AX20 or TP-Link WiFi 6 Router AX1800, as you find it on Amazon. For a bit more money...

How to enable file sharing (Samba) and set the workgroup in Ubuntu Linux

  • tutorial
  • Codrut Neagu
  • 06.01.2021
Windows computers and devices can interconnect and share files and folders between them using network shares. However, if you also use Ubuntu Linux on some of your computers, network sharing between them and Windows is not straightforward. To connect your Ubuntu Linux computers to...

TP-Link Archer AX10 (AX1500) review - Affordable Wi-Fi 6 for everyone!

  • review
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 04.01.2021
TP-Link Archer AX10 or TP-Link Archer AX1500 has a different name depending on the country and the shop you buy it from. However, it is the same router, with the same hardware and specifications in all countries. We wanted to test it because it is one of the most affordable routers...

Synology DiskStation Manager 7: Beta available, free update coming in 2021

  • news
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 09.12.2020
Synology makes some of the best Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions on the market, and they are all powered by its DiskStation Manager (DSM) software platform. In our reviews, we always appreciated the flexibility and ease of use of DSM. Synology is now working on finalizing a...

What is Bluetooth? How to get Bluetooth on a PC

  • misc
  • Codrut Neagu
  • 24.11.2020
Many people visiting our website are interested in tutorials about using Bluetooth technology. If you want to know what Bluetooth is, the different versions of implementations that exist, how Bluetooth came to life, and how to get Bluetooth on a computer with Windows, read this...