How AI Can Upgrade Your Home Security
While smart home security devices like cameras and locks have been around for a while, these devices are becoming even more efficient, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI). Smart devices enabled with AI collect and analyze vast amounts of information. They then use this knowledge to mimic intelligent behavior, such
Can I Bring My Internet Service to My New Home?
Are you moving to a new home and would like to bring your internet service along with you? The good news is, you're probably in luck. Unless you're moving far away from your current home, you can often keep your same internet service provider (ISP)—and you may even be
Uploading All Day? Why You Need Fiber’s Symmetrical Speeds
You’ve changed the way you use your home internet. These days you’re doing a lot more uploading. So when you’re gaming on multiplayer platforms, broadcasting live content, posting videos to social media, participating in video calls and sending big work files, that’s uploading. Plus, you’re filling your home with
Smart Monitoring Devices You Need for Your Vacation Home
You know how it goes. You check your weather app and discover there’s a huge storm approaching your vacation home. Rather than worrying, now you can know for sure what’s happening. Keep your vacation home as smart as your primary home. Implement smart tools for remote monitoring that goes
Choosing the Best Spot for the Router in Your New House
Congratulations—you’re about to move into the house of your dreams and connect to fiber optic internet. One of the next steps will be finding the best place to put the Wi-Fi router so your internet connection works the way you want it to. The router placement makes all the
How To Do Your Internet Troubleshooting Online
It’s probably happened to you at one time or another: You’re working online, watching a movie or playing a game, when suddenly that awful “no internet” message pops up. Or maybe your usually speedy internet connection has slowed to a crawl. Fortunately, you can often restore your internet connection
5 Best Smart Home Automation Systems To Build Into Your New Home
Building smart controls into your new home is truly a smart idea. Now that you’re starting fresh, you can implement the systems that make the most sense to you. We suggest these five: security, sound, lighting, climate and yard. It’s important the devices you select are compatible with each
What’s Fiber to the Home? To the Curb? To the Node?
When you find out that fiber is coming to your neighborhood (at last!), you’ll want to see how it’s being delivered. While internet service providers (ISPs) say they're providing 100% fiber networks, fiber to the curb (FTTC) and fiber to the node (FTTN) options don't actually provide that fiber
How To Protect Your Cable and Internet Lines When You’re Digging in Your Yard
You have lots of reasons to start digging in your yard: planting trees, putting in a mailbox, installing a new smart sprinkler system or a smart outdoor lighting system. But it's a good idea to be extra careful: You don’t want to cut any underground telecom, electricity or oil and
How Your Smart Home Devices Can Help You Go Green
The smart devices that automatically control your home's temperature, lighting, sprinklers and more are also a very smart way to conserve energy and create an eco-friendly home.The gas and electricity our homes use each day produce greenhouse gas emissions that trap heat in the environment, contributing to climate change.