Recent content by jacobian

The bottom line it seems, there is no need to upgrade if you already own a Oneplus One. I have one Oneplus One (64GB) in the family running the stock CyanogenOS, and I see no reason to upgrade it. Very good smartphone all around. Hope the next generation will be better.

If you're old enough to register a Toms Hardware account, you can certainly do some research on wikipedia article on CPUs and such. All computer programs and operating systems that you can run on a PC or other computing device ("the software") are actually very long columns of instructions that...

Rather sadly, much of the history of Windows security vulnerabilities is due to poor security practices among the users and software developers. Not using administrator account by default could have saved many headaches, and we had Windows 2000, a fine multi-user OS, since when, 1999? (I don't...

You think you need USB3 to drive a 802.11ac network adapter at full speed? Please. You couldn't have been more confused. Let's say we're talking about a two stream AC device, so theoretically it's capable of 867mbps throughput in 5GHz band. However, much of that number pertains to the "physical...

Get a free wireless analysis tool like Acrylic-free. Put it on a laptop, walk around and study the connectivity to your own networks, as well as the interference from neighbors networks. It could be really telling if it should something like your wifi channels clashing with somebody else's...

Smallnetbuilder tests both wired and wireless performance, and they have tested most of the popular routers. I can forgive this to Tomshardware because this site does not focus solely on networking.

To me, MU-MIMO and Tri-Band routers sound more like an up-selling pitch through a bunch of hacks, rather a genuine improvement over an ordinary dual-band AC1750 class router. The reality is that everyone's wireless performance is limited by client hardware, and this means a two stream 2x2...

I use abot 80% of my 500GB Windows 7 hard drive, but my PC is used as a back up station for everyone's phone and tablet in the house, a storage space for my music collection (200GB or so all in flac format), about 100GB used for movies and shows that I didn't bother to delete. Realistically, I...

The article does not seem to mention that you take advantage of MU-MIMO you need to have a MU-MIMO compatible client. At the current moment, the only other device that can be a MU-MIMO client is probably this router itself. There will be supposedly some Acer notebooks coming in the summer with...

In "How we tested" you didn't specify what kind of wi-fi hardware the test clients had. Was it PCIe or USB network adapter? What kind of MIMO setup, e.g. 3x3 or 2x2?