It’s been a bit over six months since I made the switch from consumer-grade Wi-Fi at home to a more sophisticated setup, tossing out my old Apple Airport Extreme base station in favor of three linked ...

This morning, I’d like to pour one out for a truly awesome piece of gear that did everything I asked of it without complaint and died before its time: my Unifi 8-port POE switch, model US-8-150W.

Back in October 2018, when I disassembled a TRENDnet TPL-331EP powerline adapter containing a Power over Ethernet (PoE)-supportive output (see “Teardown: Powerline networking plus PoE”), I prefaced ...