Your streaming stick is slower than it should be, and your router is to blame
Rich Edmonds May 15, 2026, 11:30 AM EDT Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building…
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I optimized Proxmox's defaults and cut my home lab energy costs without sacrificing speed
Ayush Pande Mar 24, 2026, 2:31 PM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
XPEnology gave me Synology's operating system on my own hardware, and now I can't justify the official price
Ayush Pande May 18, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
KDE Plasma 6.7 is on the horizon as a flurry of bug fixes make it in before release
…issue with the hardware or firmware on specific laptops that could trigger an infinite stream of keyboard brightness OSDs after closing the lid. (Vitaly Repin, powerdevil MR #632 ) Fixed an issue that…
I bought a PCIe riser for aesthetics, and it created a problem nobody warns you about
…sense than ever With the state PC hardware and gaming is in, many gamers are considering a switch to consoles. The technicalities behind the issue Don't bottleneck your PC The technical…
Your cheap USB-C cables will fail with USB4
…These are all potential issues relating to the cable(s) used. And that's the crux of USB-C as a connector. It standardized the way we connect hardware, not how it…
My network kept dropping devices until I stopped over-engineering and checked my firewall rules
Rich Edmonds Apr 25, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building…
Cloud-connected smart home gear isn't smarter, it's just slower and riskier
Jasmine Mannan Apr 17, 2026, 3:31 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
I silenced my network stack, and all it cost me was my sanity
…Noctua and Ubiquiti sent XDA hardware to use for this article. Neither company had any input into the content, nor did they see it before publication. Related Buying a network cabinet is…
Free NAS distros beat Synology's price, and the performance gap doesn't justify the markup
…The issue is that, like with other NAS vendors, there's a premium to pay for the luxury in buying a compact system designed in-house with proprietary hardware and software. It…