UniFi vs Gl.iNet Pocket Router – Which is Better? Travel routers provide a convenient way to connect several devices through a single wired, wireless or phone-tethered internet connection, while keeping the user’s own network settings and security in place. The UniFi Travel Router and GL.iNet Mango 2 approach this requirement from slightly different positions, but […]

Video covered: How We DO and DO NOT Want AI in Our NAS (ft. QNAP) from the NASCompares YouTube channel, published 2026-06-11T14:00:12+00:00. This article expands the booth discussion into a practical guide to where AI on NAS is useful, where it becomes risky, and how QNAP is trying to balance local data ownership with AI-assisted […]

Gl.iNet Launching Portable Dashcams and AirBnB Cameras – No, Really… GL.iNet is best known for its travel routers, networking hardware and increasingly broad range of portable connectivity products, but at IFA 2026 the company showed that it is looking at expanding into another part of the travel market. Under its Umino branding, GL.iNet revealed the […]

What is the UniFi Travel Router LR? The UniFi Travel Router Long-Range, or UTR-LR, is a compact $99 travel router designed to provide a private, managed network when using hotel, rental property, office or other shared internet connections. It joins the existing $79 UniFi Travel Router rather than replacing it, retaining the same general platform […]

Does Fygo OS deserve your data? Following my full FygoOS software review, which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kjEHKEMkf8, I wanted to put together a more detailed Q&A covering the questions that came up before, during and after testing the platform. These questions are a mixture of my own points from spending several days with the […]

UniFi Travel Router UTR 6 Months Later Review When the UniFi Travel Router, or UTR, first arrived around 6 months ago, it was Ubiquiti’s first proper attempt at a dedicated travel router. It was a small, USB-C powered device designed to sit between your devices and whatever internet connection was available at the time, whether […]

HexOS is not dead, but the question in mid-2026 is whether it is moving quickly enough to stay compelling. In our latest check-in, the core concern is not that HexOS has stopped developing. It has not. The concern is that many of the changes since early 2026 feel like polish, alignment work and useful quality-of-life […]

GL.iNet Flint 4 First Look: What Has Emerged So Far I first saw the GL.iNet Flint 4 at CES 2026, but information about the router became relatively limited in the months that followed. GL.iNet has now formally presented the Flint 4, also known as the GL-BE14000, as an upcoming tri-band Wi-Fi 7 router aimed at […]

A New DIY NAS Software Challenger! But Does FygoOS Deserve Your Data? Fygo OS is a relatively new NAS operating system aimed at users who want to build their own storage server without relying on a traditional turnkey NAS brand or a more technical platform such as TrueNAS, Unraid or OpenMediaVault. It runs on x86 […]

Don’t Buy the WRONG Hardware KVM – Use This Guide To Get it Right, First Time! Remote access is often treated as a software problem, but there are situations where software alone is not enough. A physical remote KVM sits between you and the target computer at the hardware level, giving remote access to the […]

Synology DSM 7.4 – What Is Included and Should You Upgrade? UPDATE – Synology has reached out to me to correct a presentation point regarding the supported devices for DSM 7.4 and one that I covered at 04:01 . DSM 7.4 will continue to support the 20-series models; it’s specifically the new Storage Efficiency feature […]

Is Synology Moving Away From Routers? Synology is still best known for NAS hardware, DSM, backup software, private cloud storage, surveillance, and business data management, but its router range has always been an interesting side branch of the wider ecosystem and one that I have genuinely enjoyed reviewing. Products such as the RT2600ac, MR2200ac, WRX560 […]