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Meet L4S, The New Network Standard You Might See In Use Soon

Jeremy Hellstrom — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 22:07:09 +0000

The L4S standard was approved and published in January of this year, but as of yet we haven't seen much use of it. This could change as it will speed up your…

Hook Up To A Fanless 2.5GbE Switch Mega Round-Up

Jeremy Hellstrom — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 22:11:18 +0000

If you have a current generation motherboard then there is a very good chance you have at least one 2.5GbE ethernet port. If you are hooking up to a 1GbE switch or…

AMD RZ600 Series Wi-Fi 6E Chips Coming Via MediaTek Collaboration

Sebastian Peak — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 11:36:39 +0000

Your next high-end AMD motherboard (or laptop) might not rely on an Intel Wi-Fi chip, as last week MediaTek and AMD announced their "collaboration to co-engineer industry leading Wi-Fi solutions, starting with…

ASUS Announces ZenWiFi ET8: A WiFi 6E Mesh Networking System

Sebastian Peak — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 14:04:58 +0000

ASUS has announced their latest mesh networking system, with the ZenWiFi ET8 offering a whole-home WiFi 6E experience. This may look innocent enough on the outside, but within those smooth white enclosures…

Intel Acquires Rivet Networks, Makers of Killer Networking Products

Sebastian Peak — Wed, 20 May 2020 21:16:30 +0000

Rivet Networks, the company known for the Killer brand of networking products, has been acquired by Intel. The news comes as perhaps less of a surprise when considering that two…

CES 2020: New Killer Wi-Fi Feature Automatically Switches to Best Access Point

Jim Tanous — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 14:00:24 +0000

Rivet Networks, maker of the Killer line of networking products, announced during CES this week that its Killer Intelligence Engine is being updated with new “AI capabilities” in an effort to improve…

Nokia Launches Beacon 1 Mesh Wi-Fi System

Tim Verry — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 20:06:06 +0000

While Nokia is not the telecom giant of the past, it is not completely out of the consumer hardware space where it still offers home networking equipment. Recently, Nokia added a cheaper…

Rivet Networks Announces Killer E2600 Network Controller

Sebastian Peak — Tue, 28 May 2019 13:00:41 +0000

Rivet Networks has announced their latest Ethernet controller with the E2600, the successor to the E2500 introduced back in 2016. The E2600 is now available in products from Acer, Dell / Alienware,…

Rivet Networks Announces the 2×2 Wi-Fi 6 Killer AX1650

Jim Tanous — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Rivet Networks, maker of the Killer line of networking solutions, today announced its first Wi-Fi 6 chip, the Killer AX1650. The new network controller is the second multi-gig-compatible update from Rivet this…

NVIDIA is ready to storm the server room

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 02:16:19 +0000

As part of their long list of announcements yesterday, NVIDIA revealed they are partnering with Cisco, Dell EMC, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Inspur, Lenovo and Sugon to provide servers powered by T4…

Rivet Networks Launches the Killer E3000 2.5Gbps Gaming Ethernet Controller

Jim Tanous — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 18:00:00 +0000

Rivet Networks, maker of the Killer line of gaming-focused networking products, has announced the Killer E3000, a 2.5Gbps Ethernet controller that Rivet is calling the “world’s first” such product designed for gaming.…

Building a Steam Caching Server for Faster Game Downloads

Ken Addison — Fri, 11 May 2018 23:32:21 +0000

I Have a Need, a Need for Download Speed Should you try to speed up consecutive Steam downloads with a cache server? Thanks to Wendell from Level1Techs for his all of his…

CES 2018: Rivet Networks Partners with Intel for Killer Wireless-AC 1550

Sebastian Peak — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 09:44:43 +0000

For their new wireless adapter Rivet Networks has partnered with Intel, producing "the worlds fastest 2×2 11ac wireless networking adapter" in the Killer Wireless-AC 1550. This new adapter supports the 802.11ac Wave 2…

CES 2018: Elgato Shows Off Portable Thunderbolt 3 Mini Dock

Tim Verry — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 01:53:03 +0000

Elgato is launching a smaller Thunderbolt 3 dock aptly named the Thunderbolt 3 Mini Dock to its family of docks (how many times can I use dock in one sentence?). The portable…

CES 2018: ASUS Announces 802.11ax Router and Lyra Voice, a Combination Mesh Hub and Smart Speaker

Jim Tanous — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 19:00:00 +0000

ASUS today announced new products in its Lyra brand of connected devices. The Lyra Voice is a multi-featured device that acts as both an 802.11ac mesh Wi-Fi hub as well as a…

Just Picked Up: Google Wifi x4

Scott Michaud — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 03:26:08 +0000

While our house isn’t particularly large, there were quite a few wireless dead zones with our previous setup. For several months now, we’ve been patching it with a Linksys wireless extender that…

AmpliFi Announces Teleport, a Zero-Config VPN For Travelers

Jim Tanous — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 08:00:00 +0000

Earlier this year we took a look at the AmpliFi HD Home Wi-Fi System as part of our review of mesh wireless network devices. AmpliFi is the consumer-targeted brand of enterprise-focused Ubiquiti…

Office Network Upgrade Part 1: Infrastructure

Ken Addison — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 01:07:23 +0000

Ubiquiti Upgrade We dive into a more enterprise-level of network security and feature set for our offices. Should you? For longtime readers, it should come as no surprise the robustness of our…

The Dark Knight returns, the ASUS RT-AC1900P wireless router

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 21:21:15 +0000

If you are more interested in quick wireless networking than you are in upgrading to a 10Gbps wired network then perhaps this review over at The Tech Report will catch your fancy. …

ASUS XG-C100C NIC – 10 Gigabit Ethernet for the Masses

Ken Addison — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:54:52 +0000

Overview Don’t you deserve more than 1Gbps? To say that the consumer wired networking market has stagnated has been an understatement. While we've seen generational improvements on NICs from companies like Intel,…