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Q&A: Is it possible to buy an 8 port wired router?

Posted on January 11, 2016

tp-link-tl-r860-router Question from Michelle K.: I’m the office manager for a small local insurance agency, and I need your help in finding an 8 port wired router (if they even exist).

We have a total of 6 employees who need to access the Internet though our LAN. Right now we’re using two 4 port wired routers, one connected to the cable modem and the other piggybacking off of that one.

We’ve been having some intermittent connection issues of late and we’re wanting to replace the two routers with a single 8 port wired router if at all possible. I can’t seem to find one though. The only thing I can find are 4 port routers.

If hope you can help me find an 8 port wired router. Do you have any idea where we might be able to find one? We don’t want Wi-Fi, therefore the request for a wired router.

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Q&A: What’s the best gaming router for multiple devices and a Gigabit Internet connection?

Posted on January 11, 2016

netgear-nighthawk-x8-router Question from Sean P.: I have a twin brother and our birthday is coming up soon. Our grandfather has agreed to buy us a new router and we can pick the one we want.

What we’re looking for is the best (fastest) router to connect our gaming PCs and Xbox to the Internet (and to one another). Our family also has several TVs, phones and tablets that we use a lot. We do a lot of streaming on Netflix and Hulu too.

We have a Verizon FiOS Gigabit Internet connection and we’d like to be able to use all of the available bandwidth. Can you recommend a router that will work best for us?

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Will the Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset work with your PC? Find out right now.

Posted on January 8, 2016

oculus-rift-vr-headset If you’re a gamer you’re probably eagerly awaiting the expected June release of the awesome Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset.

The question is, will your computer be able to handle it?

Your PC will need some pretty beefy hardware in order for it to work well with the Oculus Rift headset.

Here are the minimum system requirements: [Read more…]

Q&A: What happened to the Three Finger Drag in OSX El Capitan?

Posted on January 5, 2016

Question from Ted M.: I recently upgraded my MacBook Pro from OSX Yosemite to El Capitan and now I can’t find the Three Finger Drag option in System Preferences.

Has Apple done away with the Three Finger Drag gesture in El Capitan, or is this a bug? I really miss it.

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Q&A: Why can’t I search for a word in Chrome by tapping it like I used to?

Posted on January 4, 2016

Question from Carl: Hi Rick. I hope you can help me with something that’s driving me nuts because I can’t figure it out.

My wife and I both use Chrome as the default browser on our phones. It used to have a really handy feature where we could search for a word on a web page just by tapping on it.

Now something has happened and that doesn’t work anymore. Do you know if there’s anything we can try to get it to work again? We really miss it!

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