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

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