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    Your gigabit network, what kind of speed should you really expect, Part 1 of the Network Performance series 

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    Published on 05-15-2012 11:01 AM     Number of Views: 98 
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    Over the weekend I reorganized the HomeNetworkEnabled forums. It had been six months since inception and I had a little time to analyze what was useful and what wasn't. On the useful front, I realized benchmarks of network performance are useful. With this revelation I added two forums to the LAN Speed Test forum, one for wireless speed test results, and another for wired speed test results. As I started to delve in to it a little more however, I realized some context is definitely in order. In what I can only describe as a geeky epiphany, I ran around the house collecting performance figures on all of our devices. I decided to put this together as a 3-part series. The first will explore wired speeds, the second will explore wireless speeds, and the third will look at the effect of antivirus on performance numbers.
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    Vortexbox motherboard giveaway 

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    Published on 05-07-2012 02:05 PM     Number of Views: 109 
    ASRock E350M1/USB3



    I'm going to raffle off the ASRock E350M1/USB3 motherboard/CPU combo I initially used in my TiVo repurposing article. I've replaced it with a more powerful one, which I used in the SmallNetBuilder TVersity review. This would be a great motherboard for use in building a Vortexbox.
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    ecobee Road trip, coming to a city near you! 

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    Published on 05-07-2012 05:56 AM     Number of Views: 46 
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    ecobee logo

    Reprinted verbatim from ecobee's press release.



    May 7, 2012: To kick-off the launch of their new residential product, the ecobee Smart Si thermostat and to preview their latest commercial product, the ecobee EMS Si thermostat, ecobee Inc., makers of the award-winning Smart and EMS thermostats, announced today that they will be embarking on a 7-week long Road Trip across the United States beginning in May.
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    PlayLater by MediaMall Technologies Reviewed 

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    Published on 03-26-2012 06:11 PM  Number of Views: 421 
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    PlayLater is a DVR for online videos from MediaMall Technologies which allows you to watch your favorite online shows and movies offline, anytime, on your time. It sounds great, but before you jump on the bandwagon, read on.
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    Building a cool garage stereo with old car audio equipment 

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    Published on 03-20-2012 05:23 AM  Number of Views: 390 
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    Garage car stereo



    I first came up with the idea of recycling old car audio equipment to build a garage stereo after building a work bench in my garage and liking how uncluttered everything looked. The old stereo was a cheap bookshelf system that took up a lot of real estate and just looked dumb. I knew the car stereo system from my teenage youth was up in a closet at my retired parents' home, so when they came out to visit I asked them to take it along. A few hours of magic and I knew I could have a unique system for the garage.

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    Building a multi-room networked home audio solution for FREE, Part 1 

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    Published on 03-16-2012 04:30 AM  Number of Views: 547 
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    Part 1 of the series is the hack version of whole house audio that can be put together basically for free. In Part 2 I'll explore how to do a more professional home audio solution without the need for satellite devices, and it will be done for right around $1000.

    It's attractive to want to listen to your music in any room in the house. With the apparent death of the CD (that should get some comments about music quality) in favor of purchased downloads through iTunes and streaming of services like Pandora, wanting to listen to music stored on the computer without burning a CD is a reasonable request. Today I want to show you how to do this pretty much free, with stuff you have lying around the house.

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    Get a free Roku ($49.99) when you buy PlayOn 

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    Published on 03-14-2012 04:46 AM  Number of Views: 256 
    Free Roku with PlayOn


    If you are thinking of purchasing PlayOn anyway, now is a great time to do it as they are giving away a free Roku with the lifetime PlayOn subscription. If you've read any of my articles you know that I'm a big fan of using PlayOn for things like streaming flash video to an iPad and watching Hulu on DLNA devices and the iPad for free.

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