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Good news if you are a Devolo powerline user with dLAN 1200+ products in your home...Devolo have announced a new free firmware update which gives a 20% bandwidth boost. The firmware will be available shortly for installation and owners can either use Devolo's Cockpit app, the web interface or firmware updater software from Devolo. I have a four adaptor setup
Nearly all smart home systems have a controlling hub which typically requires a cabled network connection as the hub itself has a number of wireless transmitters such as ZigBee, Z-wave or Bluetooth to control the smart devices round the home. Given that the best location for the smart hub is in the centre of a house for maximum coverage, this
These days it's not unusual for a household to be consume considerable amounts of bandwidth. Someone can be gaming, someone can be streaming an HD movie and and someone else can be on a video call. Who's hogging the broadband? Who takes priority? The Netduma R1 router answers these questions and takes control back with easy-to-use software for gamers and
I'm a big fan of powerline networking and Devolo in particular because it helped me double the speed of my internet connection. It was simple; using one of their adaptors I was able to put my broadband router by my telephone master socket rather than at the end of a long extension lead. In one go, my download speed jumped
With wifi routers and access points, there's a subtle game of one-upmanship based on the number of aerials sprouting from the device. If unit has only one aerial or it's embedded in the unit, it probably comes free from the broadband or cable provider; two aerials is soooo 11g, three aerials and the router's got some chops; six aerials....now you're
Powerline networking is a great way to spread data connectivity around a home via electrical sockets instead of Ethernet, and today Devolo announced the UK availability of its first gigabit Powerline adaptor with built-in 11ac WiFi: the dLAN 1200+ WiFi ac. The gigabit speeds make it perfect for households that stream 4K and 3D content to multiple wired and wireless devices. At
Server traffic is a crucial element of the Internet but it's pretty dull and hard to make interesting...unless you have Logstalgia (aka ApachePong) by Andrew Caudwell. It's a "website traffic visualization that replays or streams web-server access logs as a pong-like battle between the web server and an never ending torrent of requests. Requests appear as colored balls (the same