Devices & Networks
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How to Tell If Someone Else Is on Your Wi-Fi (the Five-Minute Router Check)
Slow internet is rarely a neighbor on your Wi-Fi, but checking takes five minutes. Here is how to look, and what to fix while you are in there.
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5 Things You Should Change on Your Phone This Week
Five phone security changes that take under twenty minutes total and cover how phones actually get compromised. Start with the password manager.
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Securing Your Home Wi-Fi: What Actually Matters
Skip the firewall rules and VLANs. Five settings actually secure your home Wi-Fi, starting with the admin password you never changed.
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How to Make Your Backups Actually Work
Most backups fail when they’re needed. The 3-2-1 rule is how you make your backups actually work, and testing is the step everyone skips.
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What to Do If Your Phone Gets Stolen
What you can do after your phone gets stolen depends almost entirely on what you set up before. Remote lock first, then accounts, carrier, police report.
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What Antivirus Software Actually Does (and What It Doesn’t)
Antivirus software still has a role, but a narrower one than thirty years of advice suggests. What it catches, what it misses, and whether built-in is enough.