Last August, I watched a fellow cruiser at the Port of Miami have her power strip confiscated at security because it had surge protection built in. She had packed it specifically because it said “cruise approved” on the listing. That single moment is why I spent the last three months testing 12 different travel power […]
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I learned the hard way why a gaming PC surge protector matters. After losing a $1,200 RTX card to a summer storm surge that came through the wall outlet, I started taking power protection seriously. Since then, our team has spent over 90 days testing 8 different surge protectors and UPS units across gaming setups
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Your home theater probably represents a few thousand dollars of carefully chosen gear: a 65-inch OLED, an AV receiver pushing a 5.1 setup, a gaming console, maybe a 4K Blu-ray player. I have spent the last three months running power tests on eight surge protectors to figure out which ones actually keep that gear alive
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Searching for the best surge protectors with USB-C PD usually starts with one frustration: your laptop, monitor, phone, and gaming gear all need power, but one cheap wall tap cannot safely handle the job. I tested and compared eight current models for outlet spacing, USB-C charging output, surge rating, desk footprint, and warranty coverage, with
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I learned this lesson the hard way. After a 2-night stay at my own Airbnb, my first guest left a four-star review with one specific note: “WiFi kept dropping in the bedroom.” That single line cost me my Superhost status that quarter. I bought a real router the next day. Fast, reliable WiFi is no
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I tested 8 routers over 90 days with a simulated smart home running 120+ connected devices simultaneously. Three kept every device online without a single drop. Two buckled at 50 clients. If you live in a house full of phones, smart bulbs, gaming consoles, and security cameras fighting for bandwidth, you already know the pain:
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If you have ever setup a VPN app on every device in your house only to realize your smart TV, gaming console, and IoT gadgets still leak your real IP, you already understand why we built this guide. Routers with built-in VPN support protect every device on your network at once, no app installs required.
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I spent six weeks benchmarking 10Gb-equipped routers across three fiber tiers (1Gbps, 5Gbps, and 8Gbps) in homes ranging from 1,200 to 4,500 square feet. My goal was simple: figure out which best routers with 10Gb Ethernet actually move data at the speeds their boxes advertise, and which ones quietly bottleneck on the WAN side or
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I spent the last 60 days stress-testing 8 routers with dual 2.5Gb ports across a 2,500 sq ft home with a 2 Gbps fiber line, a NAS, and a crowded Wi-Fi 6E device list. The goal was simple: find out which routers actually deliver two real 2.5Gbps ethernet ports without throttling, swapping, or silently dropping
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Concrete walls turn most home WiFi setups into a frustrating patchwork of dead zones. I know because I spent three weeks in a 1960s reinforced-concrete bungalow with 8-inch walls, two layers of rebar mesh, and a single WiFi router that gave up before reaching the back bedroom. After installing, stress-testing, and speed-mapping five of the
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