Tyler Morgan

I pay my ISP roughly $15 every month just for the privilege of using a modem I never asked for. That is $180 a year I could spend on actual internet speed, a better router, or literally anything else. After I bought my first DOCSIS 3.1 modem, my bill dropped the same week, and my … Read more

I remember the day my ISP rental modem crashed mid-match and I lost 500 MMR in Dota 2. That is when I started testing modem-router combos myself, and I have never looked back. If you are searching for the best modem-router combos for gaming, you are already ahead of the curve, because the stock box … Read more

If you’re paying Xfinity $25 a month to rent their gateway, you’re spending $300 every year for equipment you could own outright. I made the switch to my own router four years ago, and the difference has been night and day. The Xfinity gateway I was renting kept overheating during summer movie nights, dropping connections … Read more

Last , I sat in a Lisbon hotel lobby for 40 minutes trying to log my laptop, phone, and tablet into the captive portal separately. By the third device, the connection had timed out and I had to start over. That night I ordered a travel router. Two days later in Porto, one login gave … Read more

That one corner of the house where your Zoom calls freeze and your game lag spikes is what we call a Wi-Fi dead zone. I have lived with that corner for years, and after dragging my router to three different outlets, running ethernet through the attic, and arguing with my router settings, I finally started … Read more

If you are building or upgrading a 10 Gigabit Ethernet network, the single most important cable decision you will make is choosing the right Cat6a cable. I have spent the last three months running real-world speed tests, latency benchmarks, and EMI interference trials across ten of the most popular Cat6a cables on the market, and … Read more

I’ve been running game servers from my home office for over a decade, and nothing is more frustrating than a 90ms spike during a boss fight. When Wi-Fi fails mid-match and your ping jumps from 14ms to 140ms, the whole evening is gone. That’s the exact problem the best MoCA adapters for coax networking solve, … Read more

If you care about home network privacy in , you have probably noticed that protecting every device in your house is harder than it should be. Smart TVs, gaming consoles, security cameras, and IoT gadgets cannot run VPN apps on their own. That is exactly where the best VPN routers for home privacy step in, … Read more

I spent the last three months testing eight powerline adapters in my home to find the best powerline adapters for wired gaming, and the results surprised me. Gaming does not need the multi-gigabit speeds most marketing pages brag about, but it does need stable, low-jitter connections, and that is where powerline adapters either save your … Read more

If your home network feels like it’s stuck in 2015, upgrading to a 10GbE switch is the single biggest performance jump you can make. After spending three months moving terabytes between TrueNAS boxes, Proxmox clusters, and a couple of gaming VMs, I can tell you the bottleneck is almost never the disks. It is the … Read more