How we connected our 4K Fire Sticks to our network

4K Fire Sticks are great. We’re very pleased with them. It’s great, but sometimes there’s a problem with connectivity, probably more related to Wi-Fi. As a result, Ian decided to hard-wire the Fire Sticks directly into the house’s Gigabit network. The Fire Sticks connection to power, and the world is Read more

ieGeek Security Camera Outdoor with 25m Night Vision – Our Hog Cams

We show the CCTV cameras we are using as Hog Cams below: ieGeek Security Camera Outdoor with 25m Night Vision ← paid links on this page Some more images below from our Hog Cams: Before opting to install Synology Surveillance Station on a couple of our storage Synology NAS’, we Read more

Technological Useful Resources

Pi-Hole – Pi-hole is a Linux network-level advertisement and Internet tracker blocking application which acts as a DNS sinkhole and optionally a DHCP server, intended for use on a private network. The designers created it for low-power embedded devices with network capability, such as the Raspberry Pi, but can install Read more

A graphical example of why we recommend Pi-Hole

The two images below are a view of a British online newspaper without Pi-Hole and then Pi-Hole active to demonstrate the reduction in internet traffic you will experience if you implement Pi-Hole. By reducing what your internet connection has to download, you are, in effect, speeding up the downloading of Read more

IONOS and an unexpected problem

We’ve been using IONOS for a few months quite happily with no issues, basically relying upon their Single Sign On (SSO). We were using the single sign on due to the random nature of the login id it creates to get into WordPress. As all was working perfectly, we never Read more

Time to ditch those fixed pay monthly contracts

As the MoneySavingExpert, Martin Lewis suggests, it is time to ditch any fixed contract services you pay for mobile telephone, internet and packaged TV. You could save yourself quite a bit of money each month. We switched away from VirginMedia to an all Pay As You Go (PAYG) solution, and Read more