Having your own personal cloud storage is great, many of us now share folders among family and friends for photos, businesses use them for backup and to access important files while away from the office and with the right apps – they make outstanding media players!

But if you've never used one before the prospect of setting up a your very own NAS (Network Attached Storage) in your home and office can be quite a daunting task, lucky for us ASUSTOR have made these technical devices a lot simpler to use without cutting back on the features we want!

While there are a few to choose from in the Asustor Store for this blog we'll look at the one which is probably the best starter point for home and office – the AS-202T 2 Bay NAS Tower

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Heading away for the holidays? TP-Link has 3 neat networking gadgets you might like :)

The TP-Link Wireless Network Security IP Camera can send you motion triggered e-mail alerts to keep you updated while you are away.

Sharing wifi from our phones is now pretty common place but with the TP-Link Portable 3G Mobile Wi-Fi equipped with a 2000mAh internal battery for extended hours of outdoor use you'll save the phone battery for more important things.

If you're in staying in a motel that has an ethernet coming out the wall this Wireless N Nano Router can conveniently connect to the internet and share the connection around an average sized room at 150Mbps. The device’s tiny size makes it ideal for taking on the road.

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We all want faster wifi and if you're a lucky monkey in possession of an awesome Samsung Galaxy S4 this little device can take full advantage of the now established AC wireless tech. To help bring slightly older devices up to speed Netgear has a cool bonus at the moment when you grab their AC modem/router, more on that after the techy stuff.

AC wifi, or technically speaking 802.11ac access points working with 802.11ac devices can give you faster data transmission, which is pretty useful if you're streaming movies around your house or dare I say it, wireless gaming…

The Xbox One teardown revealed it has this AC technology in it (though not activated yet) so this is certainly something we'll start to see more and more of in the future which brings me to the situation many people find themselves in when buying the latest technology, not all devices I own are ready.

If you're about to make the move to super fast AC wireless you might like this offer from team at NETGEAR :)

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We've photographed the latest Netgear range in our 360 photobooth. Give our products a spin to see all the inputs and outputs.

Check out the Netgear 2200M Modem Router Mobile Broadband Edition. This clever piece of tech is a full featured Wireless-N router with Integrated ADSL2+ Modem and a failover or backup option to connect to a 3G+ Mobile Broadband network in case of DSL outage. Internet traffic will be temporarily routed via the secondary Mobile Broadband Internet access. When normal service is restored to your primary ADSL line, all traffic is switched back. A bit brilliant really :)

Check out our other Netgear products for the best in home networking solutions!

Are you finding a wireless connection is letting you down when you're gaming, whether by range or instability? A powerline adaptor could be answer!

These handy gadgets provide a direct line from your modem, through your houses internal power lines to your device. There are many options out there, and the Netcomm NP203 Powerline is the best one I have seen, here's why:

I use the TP-Link Powerline Adapter Starter Kit myself to bring the internet from my wireless modem upstairs directly to the consoles in the lounge. When I'm playing first person shooters I've found the wireless connection was getting me.. well.. unfairly pwned.

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If you've been looking for a way to share that large digital collection of movies, music, photos around your house, the My Book Live could be the answer!

Just connect the 4TB My Book Live to your existing modem/router and head to your PC, you'll now see it has popped up in networks (my computer)

That's it, super complicated huh! You can now just drag files across and enjoy access to them from your other devices connected to you homes WiFi like your Playstations, Smart TVs, laptops & more.

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Sometimes there are spots where the wireless just won't reach, or sometimes we need to connect a device like a network media player or Xbox 360 console without wireless and TP-Link have just the solution for this often complicated issue.

The TP-Link Mini Powerline Starter Kit is the easiest way to get the net to those hard to reach places.

Just connect one (the starter kits comes with two) to your modem and plug it in the nearest wall power socket – now the power plugs in your house can become access points simply by plugging in the other adapter – It's just that easy!

So if you're stuck without access in those hard to reach places order the TP-Link Mini Powerline Starter Kit and you could be enjoying HD video streaming, online gaming and more with the 200Mbps connection running though the power lines in your house – get yours today!