Category: Wireless

The Reyee RG-E5 is an economically-priced, dual-band wireless router equipped to handle the latest Wi-Fi features. It lacks bells and whistles (no facility to add network-shared USB printers or storage) which might be an inhibitor for some elementary LAN installations. But most of today’s printers have their own networking capability and network-shared storage is usually very much better catered for by a dedicated NAS. The crucial feature of the RG-E5 is that it uses the… Now read on…

In part 1 of this double review of Plume’s WiFi pods I exposed my ignorance of “how the magic works”. I hoped that in writing about the product I’d learn more. And I have. What I’ve been calling “the disaster” taught me some useful lessons about what’s going on in and around these things. Technology that’s designed to be ignored, unobstrusive technology that’s physically small and “just works” is perhaps the hardest to get to… Now read on…

Joni Mitchell writes great songs with insightful lyrics. “Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got til its gone…” It took a disaster to kick me into doing this review. Note to manufacturers: if you want to show up in this publication don’t make your products so good that they disappear from view the moment they’re installed. And only become visible when things go wrong. (I’m kidding. A good WiFi… Now read on…