From smart TVs to DVRs and games consoles, many items of consumer electronics now expect a network connection to download media or to upload hi-scores. Most homes don't have ethernet cabling as standard and surprisingly few of these gadgets actually have wireless connectivity. Even then, it's rare to have good signal throughout the house. This is where the TP-Link 300 Mbps
D-Link announced at CES today a range of IP cameras and routers with cloud connectivity for remote monitoring and viewing. The two new cameras are the Cloud Camera 1050 (DCS-931L) and Cloud Camera 1150 (DCS-933L) which come with remote monitoring as standard via mydlink and mobile devices, but also offer new capabilities such as audio detection with image alerts based
At CES today, D-Link will announce a phenomenal wireless gaming router that will support data transfer speeds in excess of 1 Gb/s by combining 11ac and 11n technologies in a single router. The D-Link Gaming Router (DGL-5500) uses Qualcomm's StreamBoost technology offering Gigabit wireless speeds for fast gaming and HD video streaming to multiple devices. The phenomenal wireless speeds of up to 1.3
TP-Link had a large stand at The Gadget Show Live with a huge range of different products on show. Switches, ADSL modems, wireless routers, IP cameras, Powerline adaptors; you could easily build a complete home IT infrastructure using only TP-Link products. What caught my eye was a range of portable mini wireless routers, "nano routers", that were smaller than paperback
The Buffalo AirStation N450 USB adapter (aka WLI-UC-G450) is a 2.4 GHz 11n wireless adapter capable of a theoretical 450 Mb/s using a 3x3 antenna array. Sweet. If you are used to small wireless adaptors and tiny memory sticks, then the N450 will be a bit of surprise. It's a pretty chunky number at a little under 9.5 cm long,
On review here is Buffalo's AirStation Nfiniti HighPower dual band wireless-n router and access point with DD-WRT pre-installed, aka WZR-HP-AG300H. I've had the AirStation on loan from Buffalo for a couple of months and it's really rather good. As you can see from the pictures, it's black and about 18 cm tall, excluding the antennae which swivel and tilt to
At CES in Las Vegas today, TRENDnet will be showing off the first concurrent dual band wireless 11n router. This is the first router on the market that can offer full 450 Mb/s by using both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz radio bands. With advanced MIMO (Multiple In, Multiple Out) antenna technology and three streams per antenna, the concurrent dual