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    WiFi wifi extenders

    The key thing about those types of booster is that they will be limited by the strength of WiFi signal they receive from the original router. Personally, i prefer using either a network of Time Capsules/Airport Express's linked up by a LAN network (difficult and time consuming) or just...
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    VLAN for Smart Home Hubs?

    Hi all I was chatting to a few other folk in the home media/smart home installation field and one of them was talking about putting all smart home control hubs (hue/hive/smartthings etc) on a separate VLAN to stop interference on the main network in the house. Have any of you done anything...
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    Software alternative for teamviewer

    Im quite keen on RealVNC Its free, secure and now lets you create an "address book" of your computers so you dont have to remember logins/ips etc :)
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    Hardware Need help with a laptop!

    Boot using Ubuntu on a USB, open the "disks" application and see if the hard drive appears. if it doesnt then the hard drive is either dead or the SATA port on the laptop is faulty. To confirm, plug the hard drive into another computer (using a SATA to USB adapter) and see if it comes up. If...
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    Other Format encrypted HDD

    Boot with someting like Hirens or UBCD and use the drive tools from there Or connect the hard drive to the computer, open CMD/DISKPART and run the CLEAN command Then create a new partition and youre done!
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    Malware Ransom Ware

    its been quite a rare experience for me to actually fully recover the data from ransomweare. i once got it all back from shadow copies, but that was because the virus was interrupted before it could delete them. Your best best is just a data recovery program like r-studio
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    Yet another Virgin Price increase

    They are really expensive. But i stick with them now because they are the only ones who actually provide a decent speed. Called them yesterday to discuss my speed being traffic managed and they upgraded me to 300mbps with no traffic management for free! :p
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