Notion home monitoring review: Smarter sensors, but limited control

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Notion home monitoring review: Smarter sensors, but limited control

At a Look

Expert’s Ranking

Pros

Still quite simple: any person can get up and managing in minutes
The qualified checking option charges only $10 for every month
Some operational kinks have been ironed out in excess of the many years

Drawbacks

Nevertheless no way to expand the program to incorporate cameras or other a lot more sophisticated features
Calls for bulky generally-on bridge to hook up to Wi-Fi

Our Verdict

Qualified monitoring does not precisely adjust the match for Idea, but it does give extra security at a affordable cost.

Cost When Reviewed

$149.00

Ideal Prices These days: Notion Starter Package (3 sensors and bridge)

Five-12 months-aged Idea has come to be a absolutely experienced member of the sensible home community—to the stage wherever Comcast acquired the organization in 2020. Astonishingly, Comcast by no means rolled Notion’s products into its own Xfinity protection supplying, and the two protection brands

by Nicky Chicca — October 29, 2022 in Texas Tech Football

ZyXel NWA220AX-6E Review: An Odd Wi-Fi 6E Access Point

ZyXel NWA220AX-6E is one of a kind, not necessarily in a good way.

On the one hand, it’s an affordable well-performing PoE access point that can work as a standalone unit or part of ZyXel’s cloud-based Nebula mesh system — you’d need to register an account and log in with the vendor.

On the other, it’s a selectable broadcaster that makes things hard to select by offering you either the popular 5GHz band (Wi-Fi 6) or the novelty 6GHz (Wi-Fi 6E). You read it right; you can’t use both simultaneously. It’s madness.

For this reason, you should look at the Zyxel NWA220AX-6E as more of a Wi-Fi 6E upgrade device that adds 6GHz to an existing Wi-Fi 6 (or 5) network. And only in that case it makes sense.

In a way, and at the current street price of less than $230, the NWA220AX-6E is an excellent PoE-ready alternative to

by Nicky Chicca — October 21, 2022 in Texas Tech Football

Google Fiber internet review: Fair pricing for a premium service

gettyimages-157081274 — Julie Denesha/Bloomberg via Getty Images

I live in a city where Google Fiber is available, though I’ve never had the opportunity to sign up for service. Coverage in my hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina, was light before expansion came to an abrupt halt in 2016, but now that expansion is back in full force, and I’m holding onto hope that Google Fiber will eventually come to my neighborhood. I’ll sign up for it if it does, because the value is too good to pass up.

When I say “value,” I’m not necessarily talking about cheap internet. In fact, Google Fiber has one of the highest starting prices of any top ISP. You get what you pay for, however, as speeds start at 1,000 megabits per second, aka gigabit service. Add in the common customer-friendly perks like unlimited data and no contract requirements — as well as

by Nicky Chicca — September 12, 2021 in Internet Provider

T-Mobile 5G Home Internet Review

T-Mobile

Things have been moving fast in 2021 for T-Mobile’s 5G Home Internet option. It first started rolling out a pilot program early in the year and one of my CNET colleagues was one of the first to give it a test run. By April, T-Mobile announced it had expanded its home broadband service nationwide.

While we’ve been aware for quite some time of T-Mobile’s desire to use 5G to break into the home internet game, now that its home broadband offering is here, what does that mean for consumers? Does 5G home internet offer something new? Is T-Mobile Home Internet a viable option to replace your current internet service provider?

First of all, the price is right — currently, T-Mobile is charging $50 a month for its internet service. On top of that, customers don’t have to worry about long-term contracts or data caps. Pretty sweet,

by Nicky Chicca — September 7, 2021 in Internet Provider

Suddenlink Home Internet Review – CNET

Suddenlink Communications

The first thing that leaps out at you about Suddenlink internet service is the appealing price. In our CNET roundups, my colleagues have tagged Suddenlink as the best gigabit internet deal and also the best rural internet speed for the price. With Suddenlink starting at $30 a month for 100-megabit service, you’re going to get a good price on your internet service, at least at the start.

Added to that, you have no contracts, a money-back guarantee and, in most markets, no data caps. How can you go wrong?

Like

Fast speeds with very appealing promo pricing
No data caps or contracts
60-day money-back guarantee

Don’t Like

Steep price increase after the first year
Customer satisfaction numbers have steadily declined in recent years

Alas, it’s not all roses and sunshine. Despite the tough-to-beat intro pricing, Suddenlink suffers from fading customer satisfaction rankings and a significant second-year price

by Nicky Chicca — August 29, 2021 in Internet Provider