The fight for supremacy in the digital entertainment market is likely to be a three-way battle to support upcoming and established forms of digital media. In one corner you have High Definition formats such as Blu-ray ...

Many people now keep their music in digital form on their computers, downloading the tracks they want to play to a portable music player which they can take with them when they leave the house. When ...

The Linksys NSLU2, affectionately known as 'the Slug' to many of its fans, is a low-cost and compact network attached storage (NAS) device. It comes with two USB sockets and one Ethernet port and is designed ...

The long gestation of the Wireless-N standard, otherwise known as IEEE 802.11n, is coming to an end and there'll be a lot of new hardware supporting the new, faster, wireless transmission standard. Linksys is well in ...

The Wireless-N standard, properly known as IEEE 802.11n, has been in draft mode for over three years but is due for final approval in April. As such, the spate of Wireless-N devices that networking companies have ...

As it's increasingly common for households to have at least two computers, and with the media revolution in digitizing movies, music and photos, there has never been a greater need for large amounts of storage capacity. ...

To fully appreciate the Netgear EVA700, the following items need to be in place: a home network (wired or wireless - up to 'g' speed - will do), including storage with UPnP support, a bucketload of ...

It seems that every time a new technology comes along you have to add yet another box to the stack of routers, firewalls and other devices needed to connect a network to the Internet. However, that's ...

Small is beautiful, so they say, but don't be fooled by the lack of inches on the Google Mini 2.0. It may be half the size of its predecessor (which was pretty small already), but this ...

Although available separately, we've reviewed BT's new Internet hardware along with a new 8Mbps ADSL connection, and if you're thinking of upgrading your ADSL in the near future this might be the best route to getting ...

Remote LAN access is what most businesses now crave. Satisfying that craving, however, can be both expensive and complicated, especially when it comes to mobile users where specialist encryption software is needed to use most VPN ...

You've probably heard the joke about the electronics company that was so successful it moved into smaller premises. But it's true: electronic components, especially those used in computers, continue to get smaller, enabling vendors like Dell ...

With the muddle of ratification of official 802.11n wireless standards still causing many to stick with their 'g' rated equipment, the issue of range remains, for some, unresolved. But one solution that neatly sidesteps the urgency ...

Product reviews usually start with a quick summary of the hardware or software under scrutiny. In the case of the Buffalo LinkStation Pro that summary runs as follows: it's quick, easy to use, very useful and ...

There are times when a reviewer can spend ages hunting for the perfect phrase that will neatly describe a product, and there are times when he simply picks up the box and writes what he sees. ...

If you've seen one Linux-based server appliance, you've seen them all - right? Well, perhaps not, as the Z1 GEM from Zybert Computing is a little different. Yes, you get the usual file and print sharing ...

Belkin was one of the first networking companies to release MIMO (Multiple Input, Multiple Output) hardware and now it's advanced the technology to what it calls G+ MIMO. The new range includes the F5D9630ukA4 ADSL router ...

The appeal of the Kiss DP600 is its sheer willingness to play back anything you can throw at it. While at first glance it looks like a DVD player - and certainly it operates as an ...

At present 802.11g is the best official wireless networking standard on the market, with its 54Mb/s transfer rate, as we have been waiting years for the faster 802.11n to be ratified with its promise of a ...

Not many companies tick the right boxes in quite the same manner as Plextor. That's no surreptitious piece of advertising on our part, but it is appreciation for a company that truly understands the importance of ...