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Recent content by dgtlman

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    Circle With Disney Reviewed

    FYI - Circle Go was recently announced. It is $10 per month for 10 devices. I have not signed up for this yet, so I can not comment on how well it works. But it seems like a reasonable price.
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    Circle With Disney Reviewed

    I am not sure what the hardware specs are, I know if you have it connected via wifi, it can only process it as fast as your wifi connection. I have a fiber connection with verizon fios. Our connection is a 300 megabit synchronous connection. I have mine circle connected via ethernet, and have...
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    Circle With Disney Reviewed

    He must have. Here are some screen shots to show some examples: it groups history into categories and then sites. You can view activity today, this week, this month. When you click on any of those three you can look at the previous one (so yesterday, last week and last month). You...
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    Circle With Disney Reviewed

    Sorry, I didn't mean to get off on a tangent. Just hard to separate that purpose of the device with the theory of using it. Regardless, I'll stay on topic.
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    Circle With Disney Reviewed

    in addition to url and domain filtering, circle can also: 1. limit total time on internet 2. limit per app/site time on internet (i.e. 30 minutes on youtube) 3. pause internet for a user or house. 4. block all app stores for a user 5. see history of sites accessed or blocked 6. group devices...
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    Circle With Disney Reviewed

    This is not meant to be a flame war, but a friendly counter-point to your statement. I understand the sentiment of what you are saying, and agree. On the other hand, every parent has their own right to raise their kids how they think is best. And we don't all need to agree on parenting styles...
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    Cabling advice for three story house

    forgot to add: in several places we have auxiliary switches at the end. for example, inside the media stand in the family room there is a switch to plug everything in (appletv, xbox, roku, verizon cell extender, receiver, tv, htpc, and automation controller). again, never noticed it...
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    Cabling advice for three story house

    we built last year and had a simular issue. we have 4 floors (basement, main, 2nd and 3rd). I decided rather then pulling cable through the whole house I would run a pipe from the basement to the 3rd floor. this would allow me to pull main trunk lines. Then I had then wire from the basement up...
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    Looking for a fairly fast small business/home router

    Thanks for posting this. I am in the same boat... well minus the 14 year old playing xbox.... ours is 9 and fortunitly the 2am things hasn't started yet. Not to hijack the thread, but maybe listing some routers that are a little higher would be helpful. Never know when you find one on sale...
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    Router recommendations for New home network.

    Out of curiosity, what are the issues that you have noticed with this router?
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    complex network setup

    we currently have a fios static business connection for our small creative company. We are getting 5 more static ip addresses (have to get them in increments of 5). We are going to use them to host a few web server type things. We are going to have 1 left over. We currently use an apple...
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    Fios speeds get the 1/3 cut when router gets connected

    We just moved into a new office space and got verizon to install business fios (150/35). There is a single cat6 cable from the ONT to the router. When I plug that cable directly into my laptop, I get the full speed. As soon as I plug in any router (i have tried the actiontech router they leave...
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