Wi-Fi shares the airspace with a network you ignore, and it can disrupt your smart home.

Wi-Fi shares the airspace with a network you ignore, and it can disrupt your smart home.

Most people know that home Wi-Fi doesn’t work in isolation. Viewing neighboring networks in the list of networks clearly shows that your Wi-Fi network is working with many neighboring networks that live on the same spectrum. So, when the Wi-Fi network goes wrong, you immediately blame your neighbors and recheck the wireless channels. However, Wi-Fi … Read more

My old laptop has become a game streaming hub and ad-blocking powerhouse that is now irreplaceable on my home network.

My old laptop has become a game streaming hub and ad-blocking powerhouse that is now irreplaceable on my home network.

My Lenovo Legion 5 Pro has seen better days. It put me through university from 2021 to 2023, and one of its cooling fans failed, so every time I turned it on, it greeted me with a very horrible scream. Laptops age much more gracefully than desktop computers, so it’s easy to forget them in … Read more