Iomega’s StorCenter Network Storage Drive sports a nice feature set, including a built-in UPnP AV server. But Jim Buzbee found that its file system performance while good, doesn’t quite live up to the promise implied by its gigabit Ethernet port.
In this final installment, Tim Higgins makes a bonehead move during cable termination and shares lessons learned from the whole escapade.
When we first heard about a 2.4GHz spectrum analyzer for $99 bucks, we thought it couldn’t be real. But it turns out that MetaGeek’s Wi-Spy works well enough that it will probably cut into sales of the higher-priced stuff.
IPCop is a full-featured Linux firewall that can convert an old system into a router that has features not normally found on store-bought products. Daniel Schuhmann takes you through the details.
HomePlug “Turbo” technology prominently touts that it delivers data at “up to 85 Mbps” rates. But Tim Higgins found that the usual games that manufacturers play with throughput claims has been taken to new lows with these products.
After a false start, AOL rebranded and relaunched its VoIP service late last year, in the process making it available to not only AOL customers. Jim Buzbee checked it out and found a few rough edges…
Is there really room for more than one Skype? That’s the question faced by Michael Robertson’s Gizmo Project. Derek Boiko-Weyrauch put both to the test but found that Skype won’t be relinquishing its lead position anytime soon.
We have seen the future of high speed wireless and it’s not all bright. Tim Higgins drills down deep into what makes the Netgear RangeMax 240 Wireless Router tick and finds some things that don’t bode well for current owners of 802.11b/g gear.
In late 2005, I moved into a new home and had to establish new test locations. Since this essentially wiped the slate clean in terms of being able to compare wireless test results going forward to those from my previous reviews, I also decided to establish new test methodology and add a scoring system.
The Asterisk open source Voice over IP (VoIP) PBX is usually set up on a standalone PC. But Michael Graves shows how the combination of a special Asterisk distribution and a single board computer can provide a compact, quiet and low-power alternative.
In the final part of Kevin Herring’s series, he shows how to tame BitTorrent bandwidth use and checks out file serving performance.
In Part 2 of our series, Kevin Herring provides the how-to for installing and configuring the software you’ll need for file sharing and downloading Torrents.