Choosing a custom firmware for your router is a formidable task. You need to take a lot of factors into account; the firmware’s compatibility with your router, the features that it comes packed with, and whether or not it’s reliable.
Once you’ve established the…
The world seems to be aggressively pushing towards wireless technology. Everything from chargers (link to wireless chargers) to earbuds is going wireless nowadays, and many of these peripherals rely on Bluetooth. While there have been numerous advances in Bluetooth…
Network latency is key to understanding why your Internet network can suddenly go very slow, very laggy, and very annoying.
One of the main components in knowing how to boost Wi-Fi speeds by having the knowledge on how to optimize Wi-Fi networks lies in a good understanding…
Digital communication is all about frequencies. A frequency band is thus “how” your data is transmitted over wireless frequencies, with specific ones for phones, Wi-Fi, televisions, and so on.
The ‘bands’ in our title and in these names, then, refer to frequency…
From reading the title alone, you wouldn’t be blamed for hearing a lo-fi sequence of nostalgic beeps in your mind, perhaps coupled with memories of trying to troubleshoot your modem.
Gone are the days, right? Far from it – this article will debrief you on how modems work…
A single computer connecting to the Internet in your house, forever under threat of being disconnected by a single phone call, always a little too slow to just fully fulfill your fantasies; a scary memory, but one of a long-gone past era.
Today, the modern world is run on…
Computer networking devices are often taken for granted, and more often than that, they are thought of interchangeably.
Knowing the difference, however, between routers, switches, access points, and gateway devices, can make all the difference in either setting up a home…
Two versions of IP addresses exist, the IPv4 and IPv6 (version 4 and 6).
In this article, we’ll get you acquainted with their relative merits and individual significance, finally culminating in a consideration of:
IPv4 vs IPv6’s speed differences
IPv4 vs IPv6’s…
Link aggregation is useful for connecting switches with multiple Ethernet ports and other devices with multiple ports. There is, however, more to it than simply connecting two devices to each other, and this article will help you understand all of it.
What is Link…
IGMP or Internet Group Management Protocol is an advanced internet option used for multicast traffic on VLANs. It constrains this traffic and ensures that it is only broadcasted to the interfaces connected to receivers who are actually interested. You can enable IGMP…
What is QoS? If you can answer correctly… I have no idea why you’re reading this. Maybe you’re just here to ask the follow-up “What is Dynamic QOS?”. Maybe you want to know what QOS settings to use. Maybe I’m circling without getting to the point, so let’s jump…
Confusing acronyms are not uncommon in the world of tech. MU-MIMO is simply one of these. The MIMO stands for Multiple Input, Multiple Output. The MU means Multiple User. MU-MIMO is the more evolved form of SU-MIMO (Single User MIMO). MU-MIMO is the latest Wi-Fi standard…