It's a new year and if you have any money left over from the Christmas giving season - or if you have some gift dollars burning a hole in your pocket - there are innumerable tech solutions on which you can blow the cash, from a new router to a new mouse, and lots in between.
Let's look at a couple of items I've been playing with for a while now, starting with the TP-Link AC3200 Wireless Tri-band Gigabit Router. It's a unit that looks like a cross between an unidentified flying object and my home town's football stadium with its tall towers supporting a giant Bose speaker over the mid field stripe.