Prepare to say goodbye to Linksys’ #1 selling wireless product.
The HomePNA Alliance wants us to know that it is still in the fight as an alternative (to Ethernet) networking technology. It today announced HomePNA 3.1 certification of nine new products and the first 320 Mbps chipset reference design from CopperGate. The newly-certified products include VDSL2 and ADSL2+ residential gateways, Ethernet to coax bridges and … Read more
Last month, we reported that D-Link’s troubled DIR-855 dual-band draft 802.11n router was once again delayed from reappearing on store shelves, this time due to component (un)availability. We just received an update from D-Link on the situation.
The HP mv5150 Media Vault Pro is HP’s refresh of its Linux-based Media Vault line. The attractive new enclosure takes its design cues from the troubled Windows Home Server-based Media Smart server. It is essentially a shorter version handling two drives. One is easily removable on a tool-less slide-out tray. The other drive also plugs into an internal backplane, but is not on a tray and requires removing four screws and a panel to access.
We don’t like throwing away perfectly good stuff. But it looks like a good way to play the draft 802.11n upgrade game.
Who says that draft 802.11n routers have to be expensive to deliver improved Wi-Fi performance? Our round-up of six popular products are all under $100 and some are surprisingly comparable to more expensive alternatives.
Sorry that there was nothing new posted today, but I spent all day grinding through the Cheap Draft 802.11n Router Roundup that will go up sometime Friday.
EMC’s MozyHome Online Backup service is simple to use and affordable, but won’t back up everything you might want.
EMC and Iomega late yesterday announced a definitive agreement for EMC to acquire San Diego-based Iomega in a cash tender offer of $3.85 per outstanding share, or approximately $213 million.
Buffalo Technology today announced a new miniature dual-drive NAS with 1 TB capacity.
The LinkStation Mini (LS-WS1.0TGL/R1) measures only 1.57 x 3.22 x 5.31 inches and weighs slightly over a pound. It has a gigabit Ethernet port and dual 5,400RPM 2.5 inch notebook drives and supports both RAID 0 and 1, as well as Active Directory.
The 200rL Series is Iomega’s first attempt at adding a Linux-based (Debian) offering to its Windows Storage Server-based Small / Medium Business NAS product line. The 200rL comes in 1, 2 and 3 TB configurations in a 1U rack-mount format. We tested the 3 TB version.
Updated – Iperf is a network performance tool used for measuring the bandwidth and the performance of TCP and UDP data flows between two endpoints.