Wireless

As your most expensive possession, your home can be vulnerable unless securely protected.

While the majority of Smart Home devices I get to look at tend to concentrate their functionality on the various aspects of home security, a new offering from Netatmo is more concerned with health issues. This product is the appropriately entitled Healthy Home Coach.

Offering to light up the issue of home security is a product from Sengled.

It is time for a “bit” of music with this next product from Polk Boom.

It is cylindrical, comes in a choice of colours and provides a Bluetooth experience in the round and it has been developed by Edifier.

Back in the day products came with comprehensive documentation but today it is different.

IP surveillance cameras can be expensive so when LIDL brings one out at under £60 it is certainly worth taking a look. This camera can be connected by Ethernet or Wi-FI and everything you need – apart from a drill and screwdriver – are in the box.

The NETGEAR Nighthawk X4S is an AC2600 Smart WiFi router. I have been looking at the latest R7800 model of this particular device. It offers the user quad-stream X4S architecture for use with advanced gaming and streaming features on your LAN.

Dogs give you loyalty, cats stay with you if they want to, and while you say you own a cat it might be more accurate to say you have a cat that spends time with you, as unless he/she never leaves the home you never know what else it does and where, that is until now.

I usually tend to think of headphones when the topic of Skullcandy and its product line-up is broached but this is not the only type of audio product produced by the company. Rather than purely personal listening devices, such as the Crusher headphones, Skullcandy also manufactures speakers for a wider audio output distribution. One such product is the Barricade XL which is the subject of this next review.

If I said Master Socket few would know I was referring to how your Ethernet connection should be connected, if you have problems with slow speed or lots of time your line drops it’s the first thing the phone engineer will talk about.

This is a small Bluetooth speaker from a company with a good reputation for sound quality. However they also have another less desirable reputation – for me anyway - that of their boxes having to be destroyed to get the contents out of them.

NETGEAR has recently released a combination of router and satellite to help boost network traffic but you need to provide the modem.

This is a Bluetooth Speaker sold by a company from the Isle of White. To confuse everyone the company making the product is Lexon who as far as I know is French, so what has this turquoise blue unit got to offer listening wise.

Netgear’s Nighthawk X4 dual band AC2200 extender can be used to deliver high throughput as either a WiFi range extender or as an access point to deliver WiFi to a remote area when it is connected to the router via an Ethernet cable.

While the various in-car navigation devices that I have checked out tend to give you a choice of voices, whether of the male or female gender, the current trinity of Siri, Cortana and Alexa from Apple, Microsoft and Amazon do not offer the user such a choice. All three of these disembodied voices are of the female variety as they provide the requested information.

There are lots of advantages for Wi-Fi perhaps the most compelling for most will be the lack of trailing wires, so how do you get Wi-Fi to work when you are close or perhaps even just beyond the normal coverage given by your router.

In past years I have reviewed a number of Doro phones for both house and their specialist mobile phones for those with sight and hearing problems. Here it’s the former category with the accent on connecting other units to the base station.

Keeping track of vulnerable and elderly family members is the aim of this next product from Acticheck.

This next product adds WiFi functionality to a Powerline solution.

While Currys / PC Word sell products from various manufacturers, the company also offers some of its own products such as this set of headphones.

Sometimes it is worth taking a second look at a product that failed to impress the first time.

If you need to extend the range of the WiFi signal used by your network then there is a choice of products including the NETGEAR Nighthawk™ X4.

Streaming audio to speakers that do not support Bluetooth can be carried out using this next product.

Adding to the extensive range of Bluetooth speakers currently available is a product from the French designer brand Lexon.

A drum has long been used as a means of communication even before the development of Bluetooth.

Are you in the mood for adjustable lighting and background music? If so then let me introduce you to Sengled and the company’s Pulse product.

Having looked at a number of Jam Speakers in the past, it was time to try out a headset from the company.

Combining art with modern technology is a speaker from Ultimate Ears.

Your world is under threat from an evil force and it is up to you to defeat this force by completing Match-3 grids.