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Posts tagged “router”

Stealth Tech Tricks: 5 Ways to Hide Your Wireless Router

If you have the luxury of more than one cable or phone line around the house, that means you have options for router camo. Because who likes looking at detracting flashing lights during a movie night,...

Does Wireless Streaming Degrade Sound Quality?
Good Questions

Q - After reading up on this article over at Computer Audiophile, I became a little concerned about the current state of my setup. I currently have my PC holding most of my lossless music files and HD...

How To: Avoid Getting Your Wireless Network Hacked

After this very real and eye-opening Lifehacker article about WEP hacking (and how painlessly easy it can be for someone to hack into your wireless network with just a few simple steps), we felt it wa...

Mobile WiFi Hits The Streets, For A Price You Might Refuse

As we slowly move into the world of mobile WiFi (or MiFi, as they like to call it), we're starting to see the first glimpses of new "on-the-go" networking products that allow you to connect all of you...

How To: Secure Your Home Network

With broadband access now nearly as common as cable subscriptions, DVRs and other tech services that many of use on a daily basis, home networking has moved forward from an "expert install" into a mos...

How To: Extend Your Wireless Network With A Repeater

Yesterday, we got together with a few of our neighbors in our apartment complex and agreed to set up a shared network connection for everyone to use. Doing so made Internet extremely affordable for ev...

Vase Router Does More for Shelves than Sit Behind DVDs

Sitting in front of us on our Ikea Expedit bookcase right behind our collection of DVDs (the blue ones, arranged by color as per an AT suggestion), is our standard antenna-adorned black box of a wirel...

Flickr Finds: The Impossible Office?

We spotted this office on Flickr and were immediately in love. The retro phone! That elegant lamp! The pops of black in the cream-colored space! Beautiful. We realized the space worked so well because...

Nintendo-Made Router Matches Your Wii

It's just a router. Nothing special. It takes your internet by ethernet and makes a wireless signal that your laptop or—gasp—your Wii can connect to from anywhere in your house. That Wii c...