Tag: Router

Portal - Green Light

Review of Portal Smart Gigabit WiFi Mesh Router

This is a review of the Portal Smart Gigabit WiFi Mesh Router.  Touted as the “WiFi Built for the Cities”, it is supposed to excel at where other Wireless Routers failed by providing good WiFi coverage automatically in city areas whereby WiFi signals are congested and convoluted.  The Portal Smart Gigabit WiFi Mesh Router started…

Review of Synology Surveillance Station 8 Beta

Last week, I received an email from Synology, annoucing that the latest beta version of their flagship network video recorder (NVR) application, the Synology Surveillance Station 8.0 is now available.    For those who knows me, already know that I got quite a number of IP Cameras at home.  Usually, I just use the native…

DLink DIR-885L - Router 1

Review of D-Link Ultra WiFi Router DIR-885L

After the much successful D-Link DIR-890L AC3200 Ultra Tri-Band Wi-Fi Router, D-Link recently also released  its younger brother, the D-Link DIR-885L AC3150 Ultra Wi-Fi Router.  The smaller D-Link DIR-885L AC3150 Ultra Wi-Fi Router comes with Dual Band Smart Connect instead of three on the D-Link DIR-890L AC3200 Ultra Tri-Band Wi-Fi Router.  However, the newer D-Link…

D-Link Wireless - DIR-890L Device

Review of D-Link Wireless Router DIR-890L and DWA-192 WiFi USB Adapter Part 3

This is the third and final part of my review of the D-Link Wireless Router DIR-890L and D-Link Systems DWA-192 AC1900 Ultra Wi-Fi USB 3.0 Adapter.  The first can be found here while the second part is here. In this final installment of my review, I’ll focus on the setup of the D-Link Wireless Router…

D-Link Wireless - DWA-192 Box Open

Review of D-Link Wireless Router DIR-890L and DWA-192 WiFi USB Adapter Part 2

This is the second part of my three part review of the D-Link Wireless Router DIR-890L and DWA-192 WiFi USB Adapter.  The first part can be found here. For this portion of the review, I’ll focus on the D-Link Systems DWA-192 AC1900 Ultra Wi-Fi USB 3.0 Adapter, the installation, software / drivers setup and performance.…

D-Link Wireless - DIR-890L and DWA-192

Review of D-Link Wireless Router DIR-890L and DWA-192 WiFi USB Adapter Part 1

It all started with StarHub terminating its 25Mbps cable subscription plan, leaving me no choice but to upgrade my existing broadband subscription to the new fiber plans which offer higher bandwidths with lower cost.  With this change, this give me a reason to update my wireless connectivity at home.  Currently, I’m using a ASUS RT-N66U…