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3 ways to fortify your smart home network setup

July 12, 2022 by Kevin C. Tofel 1 Comment

It's 2022 and you have a smart home. Given all of the stories about IoT devices getting hacked or hijacked with malware, are your router and home network prepared to protect your home? If you have an older router or don't use advanced features of a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: cybersecurity, Firewalla, guest network, iot, network monitoring, network security, routers, smart home

IoT news of the week for July 1, 2022

July 1, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

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Signify exec says Hue bulbs won't have Thread: This entire article featuring Hue's George Yianni discussing plans for the upcoming Matter home interoperability standard is worth a read, but the most surprising tidbit was how Hue thinks about Thread. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: amazon alexa, artificial intelligence, cameras, Mycroft, Philips Hue, robots, routers, Signify, Thread, zigbee

How to easily migrate IoT devices on four networks to a mesh Wi-Fi router

July 7, 2021 by Kevin C. Tofel 2 Comments

On our most recent IoT Podcast, John called in with a Wi-Fi upgrade question. He currently has four wireless networks (regular and guests) on both 2.4 GHzand 5 GHz frequencies using a single router. He's thinking about upgrading to a Wi-Fi mesh … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: Asus, Eero, iot, mesh networking, Nest Wifi, Netgear Orbi, routers, smart home, WiFi

Smart home choices: Philips Hue vs Nanoleaf and Eero vs Firewalla

January 25, 2021 by Kevin C. Tofel Leave a Comment

On our most recent IoT podcast episode, Daniel called in to our voicemail hotline with two separate questions relating to his HomeKit smart home setup. He currently uses Philips Hue bulbs and is wondering if he should replace one or more of them … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: Apple HomeKit, Firewalla, Google Home, Nanoleaf, Philips Hue, routers, smart home, Thread

Which Wi-Fi 6 router should you consider for your smart home?

April 27, 2020 by Kevin C. Tofel Leave a Comment

On our most recent IoT Podcast, Steve called in to ask when Wi-Fi 6 routers would be available for purchase. That’s actually an easy question since several models have already debuted on store shelves in the past few months.  Rather than simply … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: Asus, Netgear, Orbi, routers, smart home, TP-Link, WiFi, WiFi6

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