Fun With A Femtocell
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- Published: Monday, 25 January 2010 08:11
- Written by Tim Higgins
A brief encounter with a cellular network extender showed that some router firewalls are too aggressive for their own good.
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SmallNetBuilder's CES 2009 Wrap Up
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- Published: Sunday, 11 January 2009 08:48
- Written by Tim Higgins
Tags:Notable findings and products that didn't make it into our other show coverage.
Buffalo CES 2009 Announcements
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- Published: Wednesday, 07 January 2009 17:00
- Written by Tim Higgins
Buffalo is using this year's CES to announce a revamped strategy for its NAS products and to re-enter the wireless LAN market in the U.S.
NETGEAR CES 2009 Announcements
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- Published: Wednesday, 07 January 2009 07:00
- Written by Tim Higgins
NETGEAR introduced two new draft 11n dual-band routers, a 3G router, two networked media players and a diskless version of its popular ReadyNAS Pro six-bay NAS. The company also announced new service-provider-only products and a new HomePlug AV powerline to Ethernet bridge.
Cisco CES 2009 Announcements
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- Published: Tuesday, 06 January 2009 19:03
- Written by Tim Higgins
Cisco chose CES to announce its Wireless Home Audio (WHA) line and three new dual-drive NASes.
Dell Losing Market Share? Here's One Reason Why.
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- Published: Wednesday, 17 December 2008 06:08
- Written by Tim Higgins
A recent New York Times article portrayed Michael Dell as testy and defensive about his company's loss of market share to rival HP. Its O.K. if everyone doesnt understand what were doing, he was quoted as saying.
Well, I may not be the smartest guy in the world. But if my recent experience with Dell is any indication, at least some of its troubles aren't hard to figure out.
Linksys is Dead. Cisco Consumer Business Group is Born
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- Published: Thursday, 16 October 2008 07:20
- Written by Tim Higgins
If you read the full text of today's Cisco Network Magic 5.0 announcement, it was easy to miss the reference to the Cisco Consumer Business Group. When I asked my
LinksysCBG contact about it, he confirmed that, with the NM 5.0 announcement, Linksys as a Cisco corporate entity is gone and replaced by CBG. But the Linksys name will continue on, at least for awhile.Has Networking Lost Its Mojo?
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- Published: Wednesday, 08 October 2008 11:35
- Written by Tim Higgins
Tags:I don't know about you, but I'm pretty down these days about the state of things in SOHO / SMB Networking land. I mean, when was the last time that you were excited about a networking product? For me, it's been a long while.
An RMA Success Story
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- Published: Thursday, 17 July 2008 05:52
- Written by Doug Reid
Tags:Sometimes the system works, even with a company as big as Linksys.
Virtualization for the Small Network - Part 2
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- Published: Thursday, 21 February 2008 04:19
- Written by Doug Reid
Tags:The last part of our series explores the performance penalty of virtualization and network optimization methods.
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